1. THE INDIAN GREEN REVOLUTION
By
Dr Jai Singh (ARS), Ex – Director ICAR - CIPHET
Monsoon failure 1964
to 66 – water resources
dried
Fall in wheat
production - food
crices
Wheat Production (000 t)
US President
Lyndon Johnson
refused wheat
supplies
P M Lal Bahadur
Shastri returned with
empty bowl:
Later, US
President Lyndon
Johnson agreed
to supply wheat
शास्त्री जी ने
कहा- बंद कर
दीजजए गेहं
देना
2. Lal Bahadur Shastri
asked his family to skip
dinner
1965 में दशहरे क
े
जदनदेशवाजिय ं िे एक
जदन का उपवाि रखने
की अपील की
All Indians happily
left one time food
and gave to poors
Brought
agriculture to
attention and
was the Driving
Force for Green
Revolution 1966,
Shastri Ji appealed to
gro wheat / rice where
ever they could
including Govt
Banglows
Benjamin Peary
Pal first DG ICAR
1965 - a principal
guiding force
PM SHASTRI with M S
Swaminathan, 1966 –
MSS Led Green
Revolution
Norman Borlaug
engineered the
Green Revolution
Laboratory working on
genetically
modification
experiments
MS Swaminathan
in experimental
field
MS Swaminathan in
experimental field
MS Swaminathan
in experimental
field
Happy to see research
results
Swaminathan and
Norman Borlaug
Bio-engineered the
first big break through
in food production
Lal Bahadur
Shastri shoulder
to shoulder
inspiring
3. Lal Bahadur Shastri
with farmers
Green Revolution
results
Reversing import
Green Revolution
Features – HIV
SEEDS
Green Revolution
Features – Fertilizer,
pesticides, weedicides
Green Revolution
Features – Agri
Machinery
Green Revolution
Features – Soil water
conservation
Green Revolution
Features –
Command area
development
Green Revolution
Features - up-gradation
in irrigation facilities
Silver Revolution –
PoultryEggs- 1969
Operation Flood /
White Revolution -
1970
Red Revolution -
Meat and Tomato
- 1980
Blue Revolution / Neel
Kranti - 1985
Yellow Revolution
- Edible Oilseeds
- 1986
Golden Revolution -
Horticulture -1991
Pink Revolution –
Onion and Poultry
Sector – 1996
4. ARCHITECTED, LED AND PROMOTED ALL AGRICULTURAL
REVOLUTIONS FROM GREEN TO EVER GREEN THAT HAVE ADDED
LIFE AND COLOUR TO OUR NATION.
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