Find the missing step in this chain about Pakistan:
Introduction of the Green Revolution → [ ? ] → A rise in the production of foodgrains
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Mechanisation and public investment in infrastructure
In Pakistan, the Green Revolution led to mechanisation and more public investment in infrastructure in select areas. These in turn raised the production of foodgrains and changed the agrarian structure.
The other options are Pakistan’s industrial and external policies: tariff protection for consumer goods, nationalisation in the 1970s, and remittances from the Middle-east.
NCERT (2026-27): “8.2 Developmental Path—a Snapshot View … In the late 1950s and 1960s, Pakistan introduced a variety of regulated policy framework (for import substitution-based industrialisation). The policy combined tariff protection for manufacturing of consumer goods together with direct import controls on competing imports. The introduction of Green Revolution led to mechanisation and increase in public investment in infrastructure in select areas, which finally led to a rise in the production of foodgrains. This changed the agrarian structure dramatically. …” |