CLASS 9TH Social project ( the green revolution)

THE GREEN REVOLUTION

1. SOCIAL PROJECT THE GREEN REVOLUTION

2. NAME; T.MADHU CLASS: 9 th ‘A’ SCHOOL; Kendriya V idyalaya No 2 Golconda

3. The Green Revolution

4. When did green revolution found Green revolution had started in 1960 s The Green Revolution in India was first introduced in Punjab in the late  1960s  as part of a development program issued by international donor agencies and the Government of India. During the British Raj, India's grain economy hinged on a unilateral relation of exploitation.

5. Father of the Green Revolution M.S. Swaminathan .

6. GREEN REVOLUTION HERO

7. ABOUT M.S. SWAMINATHAN Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan  (born 7 August 1925 ) is an Indian geneticist and administrator, known for his role in India's Green Revolution, a program under which high-yield varieties of wheat and rice were planted. Swaminathan has been called the "Father of Green Revolution in India" for his role in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat in India.

8. CONTINUE He is the founder of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation. His stated vision is to rid the world of hunger and poverty. Swaminathan is an advocate of moving India to sustainable development, especially using environmentally sustainable agriculture, sustainable food security and the preservation of biodiversity, which he calls an "evergreen revolution." From 1972 to 1979 he was director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He was Principal Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture from 1979 to 1980. He served as Director General of the International Rice Research Institute (1982–88) and became president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources in 1988.

9. In 1999, he was one of 3 Indians on  Time' s list of the 20 most influential Asian people of the 20th century. This was part of the larger Green revolution endeavor initiated by Norman Borlaug, which leveraged agricultural research and technology to increase agricultural productivity in the developing world.

10. GOVERNMENT INTRODUCED GRENNERY Under premiership of Congress leader  Lal Bahadur Shastrie, the Green Revolution within India commenced in 1965 that led to an increase in food grain production, especially in Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. Major milestones in this undertaking were the development of high-yielding varieties of wheat, and rust resistant strains of wheat. However, agricultural scientists like M.S. Swaminathan and social activists like Vandana Shiva are of the opinion that it caused greater long term sociological and financial problems for the people of Punjab and Haryana.

11. PUNJAB GREENERY

12. HARYANA GRENNERY

13. However it proved to be a useful measure and was pioneer in helping the then Indian Government to independently produce necessary crops in her own country instead of depending on foreign exports and whose policies were often misused by the foreign nations to blackmail India to serve their own political purpose and get dominated by those nations.

14. ADVANTAGES It may be helping to reduce the number of greenhouse gas emissions . It allows us to produce more food than traditional growing methods . It provides us with consistent yields during uncooperative seasons . It causes a reduction in food prices for the global economy . It has reduced the issues of deforestation on our planet.

15. It hastened the natural evolutionary process for plant resistance . It reduces the need for fallowing regularly . It allows us to grow crops almost anywhere on our planet . It creates higher income levels and more jobs in the developing world . It allows some croplands to produce multiple harvests in a single year . It reduces the levels of poverty in the countries where it is practiced . It supports other sectors of the economy.

16. DISADVANTAGES It created a lack of biodiversity in the global cropland structures . It can be wiped out with one devastating disease . It reduces the quality of the soil used for growing crops . It requires the use of non-sustainable agricultural methods.

17. It creates health impacts that we must consider with its practices . It has advanced beyond our current distribution networks . It encourages more resistance to pests, chemicals, and other hazards . It can encourage seed sterility . It may not produce enough results to create a profitable outcome.

18. It promotes monocropping . It requires expensive investment which promotes inequality between farmers .  It depends on fertilizer subsidies . It has failed on our earth’s second-largest continent : Africa.

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