---------------The Green Revolution -------------- March 22‚ 2013 Authored by: Surya Balaji March 22‚ 2013 Authored by: Surya Balaji The Green Revolution The Future of Agriculture? In today’s world‚ which comprises of vast improvements in technology‚ there are still impending problems in a part of humanity that we have never had a solution or answer to. These problems involve the striking fact the society has no perpetual food source. We need a movement. We need a revolution. For
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The beginning of the Green Revolution can be attributed to Norman Borlaug. He was an American scientist that took interest in agriculture. In the 1940s‚ Borlaug was sent to Mexico to develop resistant varieties of wheat. Borlaug’s wheat was combined with other technology and allowed Mexico to produce more wheat. The green Revolution was very successful in Mexico which lead to the technology spread worldwide in the 50’s and 60’s. For example‚ India was on a brink of mass famine across the country
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The Green Revolution had many causes and consequences from 1945 to the present. One cause of the Green Revolution would be the growth of mechanization and population. Another cause would be poor land conditions and the high rate of famine. Consequences of the Green Revolution would be competition‚ reduced genetic diversity‚ water shortages‚ and changes in lifestyle. The growth of industrialization and of the population were one cause of the Green Revolution. According to the Food and Agriculture
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respect to the causes and consequences of population growth “As we venture further into the 21st century‚ the global population seems to be growing at an alarming rate. By 2030 the world is to home of estimation 8.3 billion‚ as compared to 6.12 billion just 30 years prior.” (UN 2008) This quote speaks to the increasing population growth that the world is facing right now. A demographic perspective is an understanding of how the causes of population are related to the consequences. Thomas Malthus and
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Green revolution within reach People need energy all the time. Not only electricity is in great demand to make houses and other building operate but we need fossil fuels to use wide range of transportation. According to estimates‚ unrenewable sources will run out in the forseeable future. Scientists predict that we will be able to exploit coal for about two hundred and twenty years‚ natural gas about sixty years and oil will run out in forty years1. They also suggest the shift from fossil-fuel-consuming
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With the rapid growth of the population on the earth‚ something had to be done. The Green Revolution occurred to help the problem. The Green Revolution is the great increase in production of food grains due to the introduction of high-yielding varieties‚ to the use of pesticides‚ and to better management techniques. (“Green Revolution”) About four decades after the Green Revolution helped produce food in great amounts‚ organic farming was employed in various places in the world to avoid the bad side
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In the 1940s‚ the Green Revolution was introduced to the world. The Green Revolution consisted of new methods of harvesting crops‚ fertilizers and pesticides were introduced‚ and companies were able to mass produce crops. This revolution started when the Rockefeller Foundation launched a research project to hope to improve the agriculture in Mexico#. New technological advances helped the revolution spread on account of the fact that a new‚ more effective and productive way to harvest crops was invented
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PERSONAL COMPUTER “Microcomputer” is a term used to refer to computers that contain a microprocessor. This type of computer is known by its familiar name- the PC. This is the type of computer that someone is mostly to use. As the name suggest‚ a microprocessor is a very small processor. This is in the form of a silicon chip like a Pentium Processor. Since they use smaller processors‚ microprocessors are smaller than the other form of computers‚ yet they are the most important of all. They
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Although the Green Revolution was started to end world hunger and the disparity in developing countries‚ it caused other consequences which included population growth and changes in genetic diversity of certain plants and cultural lifestyles. This revolution introduced the use of new technology and many scientifically altered crops to the world. With the rise in food supply‚ the population increased and some countries weren’t as starving as before. But with the advancement in technology and crop
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The Green Revolution | A Review | Sumit Shah‚ SYBCom. Honours | Table of Contents | Sr. No | Particulars | Page No. | 1. | Introduction | 3 | 2. | Causes | 4 | 3. | Intense Agricultural District Program * Continued expansion of farming areas * Double-cropping existing farmland * Irrigation * Using seeds with improved genetics * Fertilizers * Food Corporation of India and the Agriculture Prices Commission * Research‚ Education‚ and Extension | 77889910 | 4. | Positive
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