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GREEN REVOLUTION AND ITS

CONSEQUENCES

▪ The Green Revolution of the 1960s and

1970s brought about significant changes in
the areas where it took place.

▪ It was a government programme of

agricultural modernization.

FIRST PHASE

➢ In the first stage of Green Revolution, SECOND PHASE
there was an increasing inequality in the ▪ The second phase is introduced in the
rural society. dry and semi-arid regions of India.

➢ This made the rich farmers better and ▪ In market oriented cultivation where a
worsened the condition of the marginal single crop is grown, a bad crop or fall in
farmers. prices could bring about financial ruins to

➢ The ultimate outcome of Green the farmers.
Revolution was the process of

differentiation in which the rich became
richer and the poor became poorer.