Mahesh Tatavarthi
Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read

Green revolution is a boon to farmers and it assisted India to achieve food security. But, now the scenario has been completely changed and it is treating as a bane to agriculture. Moreover, this is going to create food crisis in India if we continue this for a longer period.

Crop yield has been increased by leaps and bounds with the implementation of green revolution initially. But, later on chemical fertilisers and pesticides started eating the soil bacteria which led to the depletion of soil fertility. Because of its high input cost and lacklustre results in crop output led to the pauperisation of farmers.

Even Government policies are also have serious constraints like improper irrigation facilities, confinement of Minimum support price to few crops are the noticeable ones by the swaminathan committee report. It recommended the govt to utilise drip irrigation, micro irrigation, rainwater harvesting instead of the archaic irrigation facilities and also recommended the govt to increase msp to 50 percent more than the cost price of farmers so that they can borne the high input costs and even they can give minimum wages to the agricultural labourers. But, these are yet to be taken up by the government.

Ultimately, improving the policies and transformation from chemical farming to organic farming by increasing the usage of organic fertilisers would help to retain the growth and development in agricultural sector.