Green Revolution as Technological Fix to Agricultural Development
Journal Title: Open Access Journal of Environmental and Soil Sciences - Year 2019, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
The beginning of Human being’s effort to meet the need for food production in parallel with the increasing number of population and environmental deterioration is lost in time. One of such known effort was green revolution which started in 1968 in order to revolutionize agricultural sectors through the utilization of modern technologies. Since agriculture is the fundamental source of livelihood for the majority of human population especially in developing countries, it will always be helpful to study any agricultural aspects to take lessons from it. Accordingly, this review article tries to study the historical, implementation and shortcoming of green revolution. The study only used secondary data materials. Over centuries, Owing to some natural factors or unnatural (human-made) factors different societies across the world were encountered significant decrease in food production eventually leading into chronic food shortage that affected the life of millions of peoples and also resulted in death of large number of human individuals. In one way or another there have been responses from the people to deal with the problem of hunger at different time. As such, the so called “Green Revolution” is a technological response into the world-wide hunger that took place after Second World War. It was a great movement characterized by introduction of agricultural technology from developed nation in to developing countries with the intension of replacing traditional agricultural techniques with improved modern techniques so as to increase food production output and subsequently to put to an end the problem of food shortage. This review paper tries to analyze Green Revolution and then to discuss its historical development, implementation and failure. It will be dealt as follows.
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Mufedei Mohammed Kasim, Najib Umer Hussen
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- DOI 10.32474/OAJESS.2019.02.000129
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