AP BIOLOGY

ECOLOGY

HUMANS AND THE BIOSPHERE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The ____ revolution was an effort in the mid-twentieth century to increase global food production through modern plant breeding and agricultural techniques. pan>
A
Industrial
B
Green
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Some of the techniques used in the Green Revolution include high-yielding seed varieties, mechanization, irrigation, monocropping, and agrochemicals. The Green Revolution was successful in Mexico and India.

Detailed explanation-2: -After the green revolution, the production of cereal crops tripled with only a 30% increase in the land area cultivated. This came true all over the world, with a few exceptions. In addition, there were significant impacts on poverty reduction and lower food prices.

Detailed explanation-3: -green revolution, great increase in production of food grains (especially wheat and rice) that resulted in large part from the introduction into developing countries of new, high-yielding varieties, beginning in the mid-20th century. Its early dramatic successes were in Mexico and the Indian subcontinent.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Green Revolution in India was initiated in the 1960s by introducing high-yielding varieties of rice and wheat to increase food production in order to alleviate hunger and poverty.

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