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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India's Food Security Is Thanks to the Green Revolution. Let Us Not Deny It -Siraj Hussain

India's Food Security Is Thanks to the Green Revolution. Let Us Not Deny It -Siraj Hussain

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published Published on Aug 18, 2022   modified Modified on Aug 18, 2022

-TheWire.in

Science helped India feed itself. Now, there is a clear need for re-imagination for Indian agriculture to bring it in consonance with the ecological requirement of various regions.

While we celebrate 75 years of India’s independence, there is one area of which we can justifiably be proud.

Even though the green revolution has lately attracted lot of criticism for a variety of damages to soil, water and environment, there is no doubt that it is the green revolution which brought food security to India. Without the green revolution, India would not be a confident nation, which is able to not only meet its own demand of food, but is also able to generate surplus for export. Thus, Indian agriculture contributes to food security of several other countries also.

The history of agriculture in the first two decades after independence is not only fascinating but also inspiring for the sagacity of political leaders, commitment of top bureaucracy, vision of agriculture scientists and the agility of farmers of Punjab and Haryana in adopting new technology.

Indian agriculture would not be the same again.

Ashutosh Varshney’s insightful 1989 paper ‘Ideas, Interests and Institutions in Policy Change: Transformation of India’s Agricultural Strategy in the Mid 1960s’ documents the trials and tribulations of India’s political leaders in the initial years of this successful journey. The critics of green revolution will do well to read this paper.

At independence, India had only 15% area under irrigation and the rest was rain-fed. Chemical fertilisers were hardly used as there was no manufacturing in the country and foreign exchange was so scarce that import of fertilisers was not considered prudent. Nehru had to plead for food aid for the newly independent nation.

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TheWire.in, 18 August, 2022, https://thewire.in/agriculture/food-security-green-revolution


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