Read the passage carefully and answer the questions based on the passage:
The Green Revolution, as you know, was a government programme of agricultural modernisation. It was largely funded by international agencies that was based on providing high-yielding variety(HYV) or hybrid seeds along with pesticides, fertilisers, and other inputs, to farmers. Green Revolution programmes were introduced only in areas that had assured irrigation, because sufficient water was necessary for the new seeds and methods of cultivation.
Which regions in India mostly benefited from the first wave of the Green revolution?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Western U.P., Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Punjab
Note: The passage of Q6-Q10 is taken from section 4.3, ‘The Green Revolution and its Social Consequences’, of the NCERT chapter ‘Change and Development in Rural Society’. The next lines of that section answer three of these five questions, so a careful reading of the whole section pays off.
NCERT (2025-26): “4.3 The Green Revolution and its Social Consequences … It was largely funded by international agencies that was based on providing high-yielding variety(HYV) or hybrid seeds along with pesticides, fertilisers, and other inputs, to farmers. Green Revolution programmes were introduced only in areas that had assured irrigation, because sufficient water was necessary for the new seeds and methods of cultivation. It was also targeted mainly at the wheat and rice-growing areas. As a result, only certain regions such as the Punjab, western U.P., coastal Andhra Pradesh, and parts of Tamil Nadu, received the first wave of the Green Revolution package.…” |