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Critically examine Green Revolution as a strategy for sustainable agricultural development.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Planning and Economic Development

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The Green Revolution — the New Agricultural Strategy of 1966 — was designed to end a food emergency, not to build a durable farming system. Judged on food security it succeeded; judged on water, soil and equity it borrowed against the future. Its own chief scientist saw this early: in 1968 M. S. Swaminathan warned…

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