Negative impacts of the Green Revolution:

♤ Huge disparity and polarization between classes and regions resulted in favourable conditions for left wing organisations to organise the poor peasants to follow extreme paths (seeds of Left Wing Extremism) for their rights; the green revolution also resulted in the rise of middle peasant sections. These middle peasants with medium size holding hugely benefitted from the changes and later emerged as politically influential in many parts of the country.

♤ The negative environmental impact of excessive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as plateauing of the growth rates in areas like Punjab. The excessive withdrawal of groundwater for irrigation in many areas without adequate recharging of the sub soil aquifers is environmentally unsustainable.

♤ Tenants and share croppers who did not have security of tenure were perhaps the only losers.

♤ To appease the Farming Community in Green Revolution belt, many political parties provided subsidized or totally free electricity which led to misuse of it and adversely affected the overall health of the Indian economy.