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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Green Revolution refers to the development of high-yielding plant varieties – especially of wheat and rice, that increased food supplies in the 1940s–60s and staved off widespread starvation in developing countries.

Detailed explanation-3: -The High Yielding Variety Programme (HYVP) was launched in the Kharif of 1966-67 to attain self-sufficiency in food by 1970-71. The core philosophy of the programme was to increase the productivity of food grains by adopting the latest varieties of inputs of crops.

Detailed explanation-4: -High yield variety seeds (HYV) were introduced in the course of Green revolution. Green revolution is a set of technological initiatives during the 1950s and the 1960s aimed at improving agricultural production. Norman Borlaug is known as the “Father of the Green revolution".