Knowledge Themes
High-Yielding Variety (HYV) Seeds
MS Swaminathan (Father of Green Revolution in India)
Norman Borlaug
PL-480 Agreement
Food Self-Sufficiency vs Food Security
Intensive Agricultural District Programme (IADP)
Land Reforms and Consolidation of Holdings
Rural Indebtedness and Capitalist Farming
Inter-regional and Intra-regional Disparities
Social Repercussions and Rural Landlessness
Impact on Women and Patriarchy
Green Revolution - Krishonnati Yojana
Environmental Consequences (Groundwater Depletion and Soil Salinity)
Transition from Subsistence to Commercial Farming
Forward and Backward Linkages in Agribusiness
Structural Subtopics
- Rationale for Green Revolution and food insecurity post-1947
- Role of High-Yielding Variety (HYV) seeds and Norman Borlaug
- Shift from subsistence to commercial farming
- Impact on rural class structure and the rise of capitalist farmers
- Emergence of the "Bullock Capitalists" and middle peasantry
- Regional disparities and the Punjab-Haryana-Western UP focus
- Gender implications and the "domestication" of women in prosperous regions
- Environmental consequences including groundwater depletion and soil salinity
- Impact on landless labor and rural-urban migration patterns
- Institutional changes like the Minimum Support Price (MSP) and credit facilities
- Loss of traditional crop biodiversity and the move toward monocultures
- Linkage between agricultural prosperity and political mobilization of agrarian castes
- Social tensions and the rise of ethnic regionalism in beneficiary states
- Comparison between the first Green Revolution and the need for an Evergreen Revolution
Study Material
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