increased use of fertilizers and irrigation are known collectively as the Green Revolution‚ which provided the increase in production needed to make India self-sufficient in food grains‚ thus improving agriculture in India. Hybrid high-yielding wheat was first introduced to India in 1963 by Dr. Borlaug. Borlaug has been hailed as the Father of the Green Revolution but M.S. Swaminathan is known as the "Father of the Green Revolution in India" The methods adopted included the use of high yielding varieties(HYV)
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DBQ-Green Revolution The Green Revolution brought about many causes in societies‚ some positive and some negative‚ due to new uses of technologies such as scientifically bred crops. Since the revolution started in 1945‚ the agricultural supply has gone up tremendously and farmers have benefitted (doc 1‚ 2‚ 6). Many cities‚ such as Punjab‚ India‚ state how the Green Revolution was extremely beneficial in multiple situations not just economically‚ however‚ other cities think differently‚ saying
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DBQ Essay AP World History Green Revolution The Green Revolution was the world’s introduction to modern agricultural and a time of vast improvements in the world’s fight against hunger. New technologies such as High Yield Variety seeds‚ chemical fertilizer‚ and agricultural machinery led this revolution and are still a big part of the way we produce food for the world today. The Green Revolution was a savior do many small developing countries throughout the
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Green Revolution refers to a series of research‚ development‚ and technology transfer initiatives‚ occurring between the 1940s and the late 1970s‚ that increased agriculture production worldwide‚ particularly in the developing world‚ beginning most markedly in the late 1960s.[1] The initiatives‚ led byNorman Borlaug‚ the "Father of the Green Revolution" credited with saving over a billion people from starvation‚ involved the development of high-yielding varieties of cereal grains‚ expansion of irrigation
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Green Revolution DBQ Essay AP World History December 2‚ 2013 Interaction between humans and the environment has always had a great importance in the development of humankind; according to Marx‚ what differentiates humans from other animals is the fact that humans can transform their surroundings to suit their needs‚ through labor. The Green Revolution is not the exception to that. In times of need the human being manipulated its environment to be suitable for its development
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10‚ 2014 DBQ Essay: Green Revolution The researches that formed and became the Green Revolution changed the agricultural technologies of many places and peoples. The Green Revolution was an introduction of a new technology of scientifically bred crops that went worldwide. In 1945 the Green Revolution started as leaders addressed the issues of hunger and starvation with the Green Revolution as the solution‚ and although it helped many people at the time‚ the Green Revolution is debated today whether
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Green Revolution: The initiatives involved the development of high-yielding varieties of cereal grains‚ expansion of irrigation infrastructure‚ and distribution of hybridized seeds‚ synthetic fertilizers‚ and pesticides to farmers. The term "Green Revolution" has been attributed to William Gaud of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in a speech given to the Society for International Development in March 1968. In December 1969‚ the Green Revolution was presented by him
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The green revolution is discussed in Paarlberg‚ and it highlights how the green revolution did two different things in two different locations‚ Asia and Latin America. While it stimulated the well-being of the poor in Asia it widened the gap between the wealthy and the poor in Latin America. These two places had different experiences with the battle against hunger but they both experienced negative environmental effects. I think that the negative effects on the environment that the green revolution
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Green EAndy Deras Period 4 The Green Revolution DBQ The Green Revolution is the introduction of new genetically engineered crops and more complex tools and technologies. The Green Revolution started in 1945 due to the large population of the world and the inadequate production of crops. The world was in such a depression that groups of scientists and engineers created newer farming technologies‚ genetically engineered crops to improve fertility‚ and many other inventions. These ideas and creations
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ENGINEERING ASPECTS IN GREEN REVOLUTION abstract Technology has advanced and new patterns of better and much more effective solutions for problems are being implemented. Information Technology (IT) has been a forerunner in this approach and has transformed the whole scenario. IT has also affected the world with its approach into the Green Revolution‚ that is‚ better and more sustainable use of resources for agriculture. With the introduction of IT into agriculture the productivity
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