With the spread of Green revolution many farmers shifted from multi-cropping to single cropping to get more profit. This has a negative impact too. Choose the correct answer that shows the problem faced by farmers.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → When a single crop is grown, fall in price or a bad crop can spell financial losses
Option (1) Multiple crops would allow less area for each crop reducing profits — Incorrect. This is a reason a farmer may give for leaving multi-cropping, not the problem the shift created. The question asks for the negative impact of single cropping.
Option (2) Single crop is intensively grown and gives better yield — Incorrect. This is the gain farmers hoped for when they shifted, not a problem they faced.
Option (3) When a single crop is grown, fall in price or a bad crop can spell financial losses — Correct. A multi-crop system allowed farmers to spread risks. In market-oriented cultivation, especially where a single crop is grown, a fall in prices or a bad crop can spell financial ruin, because under a mono-crop regime there is nothing to fall back on.
Option (4) Multiple crops means more investment and the yield may not be high — Incorrect. This too is an argument against multi-cropping, given for making the shift; it says nothing about the risk that single cropping brought.
NCERT (2025-26): “4.3 The Green Revolution and its Social Consequences … Increasing commercialisation and dependence on the market in these areas (for instance, where cotton cultivation has been promoted) has increased rather than reduced livelihood insecurity, as farmers who once grew food for consumption now depend on the market for the incomes. In market-oriented cultivation, especially where a single crop is grown, a fall in prices or a bad crop can spell financial ruin for farmers. In most of the Green Revolution areas, farmers have switched from a multi-crop system, which allowed them to spread risks, to a mono-crop regime, which means that there is nothing to fall back on in case of crop failure.…” |