HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Norias
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Qanats
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Crop Rotation
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Fast-Ripening Rice
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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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Non-Food Grains Left Out : Although all food-grains including wheat, rice, jowar, bajra and maize have gained from the revolution, other crops such as coarse cereals, pulses and oilseeds were left out of the ambit of the revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Green Revolution started in Mexico and spread the technological advances in agriculture to developing countries from the 1940s-1960s. Some of the techniques used in the Green Revolution include high-yielding seed varieties, mechanization, irrigation, monocropping, and agrochemicals.
Detailed explanation-4: -Agricultural Technology . Coffee . Citrus Fruits . Cotton . Dyes . Sugarcane . Sugar Plantations .