♤ Increase in income of farmers led to the demand for factory produced consumer durables

like radios, watches, TVS, Sewing machines etc.

The surplus stocks of food-grain helped government to launch employment generating poverty alleviation programmes in backward areas.In conclusion, the Green Revolution had a major impact on rural poverty level which declined sharply through food availability, and it resulted in decline in relative prices of food, generating employment in agricultural sector and agriculturally allied areas, rises in wages etc.