GK
INDIAN ECONOMY
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Milk
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Fish
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Foodgrains
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Iron
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Detailed explanation-1: -Post-Green Revolution, the production of wheat and rice doubled due to initiatives of the government, but the production of other food crops such as indigenous rice varieties and millets declined.
Detailed explanation-2: -Green revolution in India mainly emphasized food grains such as wheat and rice. To enhance farm productivity green revolution increased the availability and use of fertilizers, weedicides, and pesticides to reduce any damage or loss to the crops.
Detailed explanation-3: -Due to the green revolution, India lost almost 1 lakh varieties of indigenous rice (Prasad, 2016). Since the time of the green revolution, there was reduced cultivation of indigenous varieties of rice, millets, lentils, etc. In turn, there was increased harvest of hybrid crops, which would grow faster (Taylor, 2019).