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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Green Bay Packers In August of 1919 two men would unknowingly make history by organizing a small football team. This team would go on to become the Green Bay Packers‚ the most unique team in all of professional sports. One of the two men was Curly Lambeau who would eventually have the Packers Stadium named after him. Lambeau’s employer Indian Packing company‚ donated the jersey’s and allowed them to practice on their practice field so it was natural to call them the Packers which is still
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Florida WOH 1022 – Introduction to World History - Spring 2013 Midterm February 22‚ 2013 Charles Ackley Enlightenment philosophes triggered a series of intellectual and social revolutions that shattered the Old Regime. These social revolutions include the American Revolution‚ The French Revolution‚ and the Haitian Revolution. The Enlightenment was a movement for general human rights‚ equal citizenship‚ and equal participation in government. At the time the world was ruled by kings and governments
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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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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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prosperous islands and a huge benefit for France’s economy. Sugar cane was abundant on this island and France sent many African slaves to work on plantations established there. In 1791 a slave revolt broke out when the Haitians learned about the French revolution. This was the only successful slave revolt in history. From this success there was also an immense downfall‚ and what was once one of the richest islands of the 18th century‚ is now the poorest country in the world. Many forces have made an impact
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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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Global and Regional Sustainability Over-population or Overconsumption: Which is the bigger of two vices to the progress of sustainability today? In the age‚ where the collective value of goods and commodities‚ the strength of economic markets and the accumulated wealth of individuals dictate the ease of life and the standards of living within society; it is imperative that we as a species reiterate to ourselves that the natural resources that enable us to fulfil all our basic needs‚ fashion
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