Positive impact of Green Revolution:

♤ Throughout the three phases of Green Revolution food grain production rose significantly. By the 1980's not only was India self sufficient in food with buffer food stocks of over 30 million tonnes, but also it was exporting food to pay back its earlier loans and to loan to deficit countries.

♤ The critical impact of the Green Revolution was it maintained the agricultural growth rates plus it generated a rapid increase in the marketable surplus of food grains.

♤ The liberation from dependence on PL–480 or other imports was a major step in the direction of self reliant independent development for India.

♤ The new Green Revolution technology proved not only scale neutral but also evolved an inverse relationship between scale and productivity. Small farmers applied more inputs per unit of land compared to large farmers.

♤ Small farmers became relatively more viable and did not sell out their land to large land holding farmers in distress.

♤ The Green Revolution not only generated employment in agriculture but also non- agricultural rural and semi-urban employment through the development of agro industries, transport industry, and other agriculturally allied sectors.