GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The Green Revolution was the notable increase in cereal-grains production in Mexico, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, and other developing countries in the 1960s and 1970s.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -In the latter half of the Second Five Year Plan, planners suggested ways and means to increase agricultural production and productivity. So the government introduced an intensive development programme in seven districts selected from seven States around 1966-67, known as Green Revolution in India.