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What do you understand by Green Revolution? Do you think that a Second Green Revolution is needed to adequately address the agrarian challenge in contemporary India? Examine.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 15 marks
  • Planning and Economic Development

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The famine threat of 1965-67 and dependence on American food aid drove India to a technology-led strategy for farming. Today the problem is different: incomes, water and nutrition matter more than cereal volume. India does need a second transformation, but not a repeat of the first.

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  • What the Green Revolution was
  • The contemporary agrarian challenge
  • Why a second revolution is needed, and what it should look like
  • Limits of the idea
  • Conclusion
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