The Green Revolution
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50 Years Of Green Revolution
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Author : M. S. Swaminathan
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Release Date : 2017-03-14
50 Years Of Green Revolution written by M. S. Swaminathan and has been published by World Scientific Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The green revolution in India about 50 years ago transformed India's image then as begging bowl to bread basket. This transformation during the 1960s took just about 4 years. The yield increases achieved in wheat and then in rice which occurred in just about half decade is far in excess of the yield increases during the preceding 4000 years. This remarkable feat was achieved with the leadership of the author using the dwarf wheat types which had been produced by Norman Borlaug in Mexico. The research and development of green revolution of wheat and rice at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi was led by the author along with his team of students and co-workers. He has published over 100 papers on green revolution and the ever-green revolution which is a refinement of the former. This book is a compilation of just about 40 of his numerous research papers, monographs and books published by him on this subject. The papers in this book bring out the scientific basis of the modification of the plant type so as to be responsive to exogenous addition of chemical fertilizers and irrigation. The ideal plant type enables capture of adequate sunlight and using the chemical fertilizers added to the soil, produce substantial photosynthetic starch. And because the plants have short and thick culm, they are able to withstand enormous amounts of grains in their ears. This indeed was the basis of breaking the yield barriers associated with native varieties. The book also brings out that green revolution had established the food security at the national level but not at the individual household levels of millions of resource-poor rural small and marginal farming, fishing and landless families. Further green revolution was commodity-centric and the manner of its practice led to environmental degradation and social inequities. This author realized as early as 1972 that system of agriculture in India should be designed to fight both the famines of food and rural livelihoods. In pursuit of it, this author further designed an evergreen revolution with systems approach. What this means is providing concurrent attention to ecological foundations of agriculture and the livelihoods of the rural people. The book also brings out that green revolution was a team effort involving scientists, policy makers, administrators, farmers and students. This book is an outstanding example of green revolution providing a breathing space by putting the cereal grain production rate ahead of the population growth rate and then when food security has been adequately established, the system is changed to achieve productivity in perpetuity without causing environmental and social harm.
The Green Revolution
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Author : Stanley Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
The Green Revolution written by Stanley Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Agricultural innovations categories.
The Origins Of The Green Revolution
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Author : Harry McBeath Cleaver
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Origins Of The Green Revolution written by Harry McBeath Cleaver and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Agricultural innovations categories.
The Green Revolution
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Author : M. Bazlul Karim
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1986-05-20
The Green Revolution written by M. Bazlul Karim and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-05-20 with Business & Economics categories.
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Green Revolution
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Author : H. K. Jain
language : en
Publisher: THE GREEN REVOLUTION: HISTOR
Release Date : 2010
Green Revolution written by H. K. Jain and has been published by THE GREEN REVOLUTION: HISTOR this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The Green Revolution In The Global South
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Author : R. Douglas Hurt
language : en
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Release Date : 2020-03-03
The Green Revolution In The Global South written by R. Douglas Hurt and has been published by University Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-03 with History categories.
A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution The Green Revolution was devised to increase agricultural production worldwide, particularly in the developing world. Agriculturalists employed anhydrous ammonia and other fertilizing agents, mechanical tilling, hybridized seeds, pesticides, herbicides, and a multitude of other techniques to increase yields and feed a mushrooming human population that would otherwise suffer starvation as the world’s food supply dwindled. In The Green Revolution in the Global South: Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences, R. Douglas Hurt demonstrates that the Green Revolution did not turn out as neatly as scientists predicted. When its methods and products were imported to places like Indonesia and Nigeria, or even replicated indigenously, the result was a tumultuous impact on a society’s functioning. A range of factors—including cultural practices, ethnic and religious barriers, cost and availability of new technologies, climate, rainfall and aridity, soil quality, the scale of landholdings, political policies and opportunism, the rise of industrial farms, civil unrest, indigenous diseases, and corruption—entered into the Green Revolution calculus, producing a series of unintended consequences that varied from place to place. As the Green Revolution played out over time, these consequences rippled throughout societies, affecting environments, economies, political structures, and countless human lives. Analyzing change over time, almost decade by decade, Hurt shows that the Green Revolution was driven by the state as well as science. Rather than acknowledge the vast problems with the Green Revolution or explore other models, Hurt argues, scientists and political leaders doubled down and repeated the same missteps in the name of humanity and food security. In tracing the permutations of modern science’s impact on international agricultural systems, Hurt documents how, beyond increasing yields, the Green Revolution affected social orders, politics, and lifestyles in every place its methods were applied—usually far more than once.
The Green Revolution
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Author : H. K. Jain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Green Revolution written by H. K. Jain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Food crops categories.
Seeds Of Change
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Author : Lester Russell Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Seeds Of Change written by Lester Russell Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Agriculture categories.
Beyond The Green Revolution
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Author : Kenneth Dahlberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Beyond The Green Revolution written by Kenneth Dahlberg and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Business & Economics categories.
This book, which is the result of an intellectual odyssey, began as an attempt to explore and map the environmental and cross-cultural dimensions of the continuing spread of the green revolution-that package of high-yielding varieties of grain, fertilizers, irrigation, and pesticides that constitutes the core of modern industrial agriculture. In the process of traversing the terrain of several intellectual traditions and cutting through various disciplinary forests and thickets, a number of striking observations were made-all leading to two sober ing conclusions. First, most intellectual maps dealing with agriculture fail to recognize it as the basic interface between human societies and their environment. Because of this, they are little better than the "flat earth" maps of earlier centuries in helping to understand global realities. Second, when agriculture is analyzed from a global perspec tive that takes evolution seriously, one sees that the ecological risks as well as the energy and social costs of modern industrial agriculture make it largely inappropriate for developing countries. Beyond that, one can see a great need within industrialized countries to develop less costly, less risky, and more sustainable agricultural alternatives. Early in the journey it became clear that conventional disciplinary approaches were inadequate to comprehend the scope and diversity of global agriculture and that a new multilevel approach was needed. It also became clear that any new approach would have to try to correct certain Western biases and blind spots.
The Green Revolution Revisited Critique And Alternatives
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Author : Bernhard Glaeser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The Green Revolution Revisited Critique And Alternatives written by Bernhard Glaeser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.