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“India has paid heavily for achievement of Green Revolution in the form of economic, social and ecological cost.” Discuss.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Agriculture

The High Yielding Varieties Programme of 1966 lifted foodgrain output in 1967-68 by about a quarter in one year, more than the preceding sixteen plan years together, ending ship-to-mouth dependence on concessional imports; output reached 357.73 million tonnes in 2024-25.

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  • The Achievement Being Priced
  • The Economic Cost: A Subsidy Trap
  • The Social Cost: Disequalisation, Not Merely Inequality
  • The Ecological Cost: The Aquifer Above All

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