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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making food consumption less of a health risk. Close observation of population growth estimates a surprising 2.3 billion additional individuals are to walk on Earth by 2050. Sharing a similar view to Thomas Malthus‚ Dr. Borlaug “the father of the Green Revolution‚” stated that “The rate of population increase [would] exceed the rate of increase in food production.” According to Monsanto‚ the modification of their seeds is in the process of eradicating the threat of a lack of food surplus in the years
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When viewing Green Day’s American Idiot—the lyrics and the Georgia College production— I got a better understanding of the struggles society faces. Stage Manager Mary Helen Higgs said that Georgia College’s production of Green Day’s American Idiot‚ a rock opera‚ is metaphorically presented as a “battlefield of rage and love.” It illustrates a great example of teen angst and their punk personality. To what extent‚ if at all‚ can society’s behavior be justified as a fight to find identity and individualism
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Bhattacharya (2011) conducted research on “Consumer Attitude Towards Green Marketing In India”. According to him‚ Marketing is the process which begins with identifying the needs of the consumer and further includes product development‚ delivering products to the consumer and providing after sales service. The conventional marketing process is not specifically concerned or bothered about environmental safety. The contemporary green marketing concept‚ on the other hand‚ analyzes‚ ecological compatibility
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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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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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Popular Literature Paper - The Green Mile INTRODUCTION The intent of this paper is to describe and analyze a piece of popular literature and to provide a critique of the literary work and a commentary on the influence of the work in popular culture. The work chosen for analysis is The Green Mile written by Stephen King and “originally published in 1996 in six self-contained monthly installments‚ The Green Mile is an astonishingly rich and complex novel that delivers over and over again
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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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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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he book Looking For Alaska by John Green is a book that brings a lot of mixed emotions and shocking surprises that make it almost impossible to stop reading. In this book there are 3 main character that go by the names of Miles “Pudge” Halter‚ Chip “The Colonel” Martin and of course Alaska Young. Pudge starts off the book as a stranger who has just transferred to the boarding school of Culver Creek which both The Colonel and Alaska attend. He is the story’s protagonist‚ the story is told completely
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