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National 5 Geography: The Green Revolution in India
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National 5 Geography: Human Environments: Rural: The Green Revolution in India * UNFINISHED*
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National 5 Geography: The Green Revolution in India
Advantages
Crops are more resistant to disease
More reliable harvests
Increase in food production
More people can be fed
Higher yields mean lower prices
Poorer people can afford more food
Faster growing crops
More harvests can be gathered
More food
Better off farmers can afford chemicals and machinery
Become richer
Employ more local people
More jobs available in businesses supporting farming
Disadvantages
Not all farmers have felt the benefits
Less well off farmers could not compete
They sold their land and moved to the city
Farmers borrowed money to buy crops
They are now in debt
Machinery has replaced people, causing rural unemployment
Chemicals have polluted local water supplies
Irrigation has increased the demand on drinking water stores
Some of the new rice doesn't taste as nice
What is The Green Revolution?
Introduced in the 1960's
A method of securing food supplies for the growing population
Reason for The Green Revolution
Rapidly growing population to feed
India cannot afford to import all of the food it needs
Many people grow their own food
Included the introduction of...
Fertilisers and Pesticides
Land Reform
Irrigation Channels
Machinery
Tractors plough fields and harvest crops
Improved infrastructure
Aims
Develop new types of rice that give higher yields
Introduce irrigation schemes
Use fertilisers to help crops grow
Use pesticides to prevent disease
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