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Folks, we need more of a balanced study of the Green Revolution in India. I will start a criticism section, but please add to it! - Reyn — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.53.213.155 (talk) 06:01, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

dr.m.s.swaminathan is known as "THE FATHER OF GREEN REVOLUTION IN INDIA" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.65.136.2 (talk) 16:12, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Does anybody know why Dr. Swaminathan is known as the father of the green revolution in India? I think there should be a paragraph on this Budugoo (talk) 07:31, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings! I am the student from Mills College assigned to work on this page. In response to the question above, Dr.Swaminathan is known as the Father of the Green Revolution in India because he was the geneticist who developed the high-yielding wheat seeds that were first introduced to help pull India out of famine-stricken times. He then set up 2,000 model farms around New Delhi to demonstrate how much more yield came from his seeds, to convince farmers to use them. He also convinced the Indian government to import 18,000 tons of seed, and played an integral role in spreading the new irrigation technologies. I agree that there should be a paragraph on him and the part he played. To go along with his part, I feel the article could be enhanced with a section on the history of the Green Revolution in India in general, and the famine that led up to it and led the country to take these new measures in agriculture...how and why the Green Revolution came to be. The current Results section seems to be a duplicate of the opening paragraph, so that could be improved upon. I think the results section could be a discussion and timeline of how these new agriculture methods turned India from an importer to a major exporter of grains and relieved millions of people from the threat of starvation. The environmental impact section is good, and I think another important area to look at is the impact on farmers. The high-yield seeds are much more expensive, and need much more water, and with the water table dropping farmers need to borrow money to drill the wells deeper...and many many farmers are in debt they can never be free from. Looking at the effects of the Green Revolution on today's India would help make this article more thorough. Annie.Lebo (talk) 02:14, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the preliminary list of references I plan on using to enhance this article, both books and peer-reviewed journals:

Bhardwaj, A.. 2010. FROM THE GREEN REVOLUTION TO THE GENE REVOLUTION IN INDIA: UNDERSTANDING THE RISKS AND BENEFITS OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS. Research in Social Problems and Public Policy: ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE 18, , (January 1): 241. http://www.proquest.com/ (accessed October 6, 2011).

Frankel, Francine R. India's green revolution; economic gains and political costs. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1971.

Green revolution?Technology and change in rice-growing areas of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka / edited by B. H. Farmer ; foreword by Sir Joseph Hutchinsin. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1977.

India's green revolution has turned sour. 2002. Appropriate Technology 29, no. 1, (January 1): 10-11. http://www.proquest.com/ (accessed October 6, 2011).

Macpherson, G.. 2009. The Father of the first 'green revolution'. Appropriate Technology 36, no. 4, (December 1): 29. http://www.proquest.com/ (accessed October 6, 2011).

Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan. 2006. An Evergreen Revolution. Crop Science 46, no. 5, (September 1): 2293-2303. http://www.proquest.com/ (accessed October 6, 2011).

Shiva, Vandana. The violence of the green revolution : Third World agriculture, ecology, and politics. London Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA Penang, Malaysia: Zed Books Third World Network, 1991.

Stone, G.D. Biotechnology and Suicide in India. Anthropology News, Vol 43 No. 5, May 2002.

Annie.Lebo (talk) 03:53, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This bibliography looks good. You may want to read Wikipedia's guidelines about how to cite sources. It is important for all statements in the article to be sourced. Neelix (talk) 20:27, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This page badly needs some serious work. I removed the factually incorrect statement, "Further, due to higher growth rate of populations, agriculture failed to grow at the same speed." Famine was not due to high population growth. It was due to faulty food distribution.Khaydock (talk) 03:16, 15 April 2013 (UTC) I have reverted to the changes mentioned above and am giving as a reference the book by Amartya Sen: Poverty and Famines, Oxford University Press, Amartya Sen, 1981.^[1] Also see the letter to the editor and the rebutal by Amartya Sen: ^[2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Khaydock (talk • contribs) 18:38, 7 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] ttp://books.google.co.in/books/about/Poverty_and_famines.html?id=FVC9eqGkMr8C&redir_esc=y

[2] ttp://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/may/12/bengal-famine/?pagination=false

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