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What do you mean by ‘Green Revolution’ and what are its socio-economic consequences? Discuss.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

The Green Revolution denotes the sharp, technology-driven rise in Indian foodgrain output from the late 1960s, achieved by raising yield per hectare rather than extending cultivated area. Its consequences run on two registers: an economic transformation that ended food dependence, and a social one that reorganised rural classes, castes and politics.

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