Which of the following is not a change due to green revolution?

The correct answer is Option (2) → Increasing bonded labour

Option (1) Shift from payment in kind to payment in cash — A change due to the Green Revolution (Incorrect). In the Green Revolution regions there was a shift from payment in kind (grain) to payment in cash for agricultural workers.

Option (2) Increasing bonded labour — Not a change due to the Green Revolution (Correct). The change went the other way. There was a loosening of traditional bonds or hereditary relationships between landowners and agricultural workers (known as bonded labour), and a class of ‘free’ wage labourers arose.

Option (3) Rise of rural elites — A change due to the Green Revolution (Incorrect). In areas of rapid agricultural development, farmers of the dominant castes invested their profits in business, and new regional and rural elites became economically and politically dominant.

Option (4) Commercialization of agriculture — A change due to the Green Revolution (Incorrect). Farmers who could produce a surplus reaped the most benefits from the Green Revolution and from the commercialisation of agriculture that followed, with crops grown mainly for sale.