The two decades of 1970-1990 saw a robust, miraculous and a much needed change in the Agricultural sector of India. It was the period of GREEN REVOLUTION. Dynamically transforming the agro-production, cultivation’s productivity and food grains availability, the first Green Revolution was an outcome of Hybrid wheat varieties, Electricity infrastructure for farms and the revolutionary Land Reforms.
With the Economic reforms coming in 1991 popularly called the L.P.G. Reforms, our Industrial and Service sector in India started gaining momentum. The so-called dominance of Agro-Industry was now being overtaken by Manufacturing and later by Manufacturing and Service sectors both. With this, in the last decade our agro-sector has seen highest growth rate of only 2%. Population expansion has occurred dramatically from just 30 crores in 1950s to more than 1 billion today. With population expansion, the demand for food also increases resulting in heavy utilization of natural resources. As A.P.J. Abdul Kalam points out, “India’s population wastes food and other natural resources at a rate higher than it takes Mother Nature to replenish these wastes into resources. Thus burden occurs on the limited available cultivable land. Very clearly speaking, there is now no more cultivable fertile land available in our nation.
Thus comes the urgent need to give birth to a 2nd Green Revolution in India. Following factors will be adversely affecting our Food Security:
1. Global Climate change: will especially affect certain temperature-sensitive crops.
2. Drought is the crucial most factor that may affect in coming years.
3. Water availability is another factor that will affect due to changing global temperature.
4. Soil Erosion is an important factor as it depletes our “already-scarce” cultivable land resources.
Bhagirath Baria
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