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    straw next time. The next venue is the IRRI or International Rice Research Institute which was established in 1960. It is one of the largest agricultural research institutes in Asia. Supported by donor and partners‚ they are known as the Green Revolution in Asia. Almost half of the world’s population relies on rice but nowadays the production is not that sustain the need of people. Their number one goal is to eradicate extreme poverty by helping farmers around the globe. They continue to research

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    the last 50 years. Food grains production has risen from 50 million tons in 1947 to 212 million tons in 2003-04. The country has advanced from a situation of food scarcity and imports to that of food security and exportable surpluses. The Green Revolution of India has been universally acclaimed as a successful enterprise of the farmers‚ the Scientists and the Government. The land mark achievements in agriculture in the 60s and 70s were the result of a combination of inputs like introduction

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    population would outrun the food supply was proposed by Malthus (19th century) and Ehrlich (Population Bomb‚ 1968). Norman Borlaug was a scientist that won a Nobel Peace Prize because of his efforts in providing food for half the world through a green revolution. When criticized about his work‚ Dr‚ Borlaug simply responded saying that‚ “the real problem was not his agricultural techniques‚ but the runaway population growth that had made them necessary” (1). I believe that human beings are mouths to feed

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    CHANGE‚ DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS Change is the essence of life. Nothing in this universe is static. everything has to move on to sustain its existence. The same is true for a nation. A nation or a country is doomed unless there is a constant change taking place which moulds the lives of the countrymen and takes the country forward. This process of change has to be catalysed by the powers that govern the nation. In our country‚ successive democratically elected governments have put the country

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    The development of improved‚ fertilizer-responsive high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice during the early 1960s and their widespread adoptions by farmers‚ first in Asia and then in Latin America‚ marked the beginning of what is known as the Green Revolution. Much has been written about this technological breakthrough and its impact-both positive and negative-in the years since its effects were first felt in farmers fields across India‚ Mexico‚ and Philippines. Since then‚ improving crop germplasm

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    human species from dying off. Overpopulation‚ though‚ could deplete or destroy Earth’s resources such as food‚ water‚ and eventually lead to the breakdown of the ecosystem. With these resources being affected by the human population‚ the resulting consequences of plagues‚ wars‚ and famines could cause one of the few times for the global population to decrease. A global plan of action is needed‚ but policies such as China’s one-child policy is not even going to be considered by the U.S and many other

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    Agricultural Water Management’ 45‚217–228. 7) Kendall‚ H. & Pimentel‚ D. (1994). ‘Constraints on the expansion of the global food supply’‚ Ambio. 23(3)‚ 198-205. 8) Dewar‚ J. A. (2007)‚ ‘Perennial Polyculture Farming: Seeds of Another Agricultural Revolution?’ (No. RAND/OP-179-RPC). RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA.

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    Chapter 14 DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE While enunciating a development perspective for Punjab‚ an essential prerequisite is to spell out a vision for the state – the kind of economy‚ society‚ polity‚ ecology and ideology envisaged for it‚ over a given period of time. This style of dealing with the issue is strikingly different from the usual style wherein the future agenda is set in the light of the evolving scene‚ particularly with reference to problems that have emerged on the way. The intention

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    important implication of India’s rapid population growth during the second half of the twentieth century was the threat it posed to national food security. That threat reached dangerous proportions in the mid-1960s‚ leading to the launching of the Green Revolution‚ achievement of food self-sufficiency‚ and subsequently‚ a growing stock of surplus food grains by the mid-1970s. Happily‚ such a threat no longer exists for the country. Growth of food production has exceeded population growth for each of the

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    Malthus and Africa Africa‚ being a third world country with much economic oppression‚ is currently being debated in the General Assembly about whether or not it should have population control. Many experts believe that‚ if not controlled‚ the rate of the increasing population of Africa will have disastrous effects. Over two hundred years ago‚ a man by the name of Thomas Robert Malthus wrote an essay on the effects of population and the food supply titled "An Essay on the Principle of Population

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