Major impacts of Green Revolution

Major impacts of Green Revolution  Substantial Increase in Agricultural Production Volume of agricultural outcome increased by two to three fold compared to the period in ’s. The increased production of rice, wheat, cereals and vegetables had erased the humiliation that India had to import grains from the United States during the PL- programme in ’s. Moreover the agricultural goods were freely available to the people in the open market.  Increased Opportunity in Agricultural Employment Due to intensive cropping throughout the year, the demand for agricultural employment increased. The demand was felt in two groups namely, unskilled agrarian labour to work in the farm and qualified agricultural engineers and experts to help and facilitate the knowledge regarding scientific farming.  Agriculture, Industry and Market The Green Revolution in India not only brought a change in agricultural activity, but also brought a healthy relationship between market and industry. As the scientific farming was more dependent on agricultural engineering such as farm equipments, tractors etc., industries began to show interest to produce farm equipments to suit the increasing demand at low cost. At the same time the market also began to play effective role in processing and supplying the products to the consumers.  Inter State Exchange and Market Mechanism One of the major problem faced by the states in India was that the Green Revolution was beneficial only to those states where the soil was fertile. Hence, states that produced in excess distributed their output to other states which were climatically dry such as Vidarbha and Telangana. Hence, inter-state agrarian market began to grow to cater the needs of the consumption. Concequently, the import burden came down drastically.  Disparity between small farmers and big farmers Farmers holding very small pieces of land had to compete with the large land holders with regard to finance, infrastructure and agrarian market forces. This led to marginalization of farmers and they were disinterested towards new techniques in farming. Hence, there was variations among farmers and also variation in various regions across India.  Mass Movement Green