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Write a note on the uneven impact of ‘Green Revolution’ on rural society.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 20 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

The Green Revolution raised Indian foodgrain output decisively, but it did so through a purchased input package — high-yielding seed, chemical fertiliser, assured irrigation and credit — whose benefits could only be captured by those already endowed to buy it. Unevenness was therefore not a defect of implementation but a property of the design. It…

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  • The mechanism: scale-neutral, not resource-neutral
  • Regional unevenness
  • Crop unevenness
  • Class unevenness
  • Gender unevenness
  • Conclusion

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