AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURE AND ITS TYPES
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Punjab
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Uttar Pradesh
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Madhya Pradesh
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Himachal Pradesh
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Detailed explanation-1: -The state of Punjab led India’s Green Revolution and earned the distinction of being the “breadbasket of India."
Detailed explanation-2: -The University lies in the campus-town of Pantnagar in Kichha Tehseel and in the district of Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand. The university is regarded as the harbinger of Green Revolution in India.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dr Norman Ernest Borlaug was born on March 25, 1914 in Cresco, a farming town in Iowa, USA. India, especially Punjab, has a special bond with him-the bond of Green Revolution. He is thought of as the Father of Green Revolution that began in Punjab in the late 1960s.
Detailed explanation-4: -Farmers in the state of Punjab abandoned traditional farming methods in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the national program called the “Green Revolution, ‘’ backed by advisers from the U.S. and other countries. Indian farmers started growing crops the American way-with chemicals, high-yield seeds and irrigation.