After India became independent, Nehru and his policy advisors embarked on a programme of planned development that focused on agrarian reform as well as industrialisation. The policymakers were responding to the dismal agricultural situation in India at that time. This was marked by low productivity, dependence on imported food grains, and the intense poverty of a large section of the rural population.

Land redistribution was the first step in changing the agricultural sector in rural India. Which of the following can be considered the second step in this direction?

Green revolution Corporatization of agriculture Abolition of Zamindari System Grant of loans and aid by government to farmers to develop agriculture.

Green revolution

Land reforms have had only a limited impact on rural society and the agrarian structure in most regions. In contrast the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s brought about significant changes in the areas where it took place. The Green Revolution, was a government programme of agricultural modernisation.