Evaluate the impact of the Green Revolution on India’s agricultural productivity and food security.
Justification for Achievement Technological Advancements: The mission included an orbiter, lander (Vikram), and rover (Pragyan), showcasing India's capability to handle complex space missions. The orbiter successfully entered lunar orbit and continues to provide valuable data. Scientific ContributioRead more
Justification for Achievement
- Technological Advancements: The mission included an orbiter, lander (Vikram), and rover (Pragyan), showcasing India’s capability to handle complex space missions. The orbiter successfully entered lunar orbit and continues to provide valuable data.
- Scientific Contributions: The orbiter’s instruments are analyzing the lunar exosphere and surface, contributing to our understanding of the Moon’s geology and confirming the presence of water molecules.
- International Recognition: The mission enhanced India’s global prestige in the space community and inspired interest in space science and technology.
- Learning and Growth: The mission provided invaluable engineering experience and lessons, particularly from the lander’s failure, which will benefit future missions.
Addressing the Demerits
- Landing Failure: The primary objective of a soft landing and rover deployment was not achieved, leading to a missed opportunity for direct surface exploration.
- Budget Considerations: While cost-effective, the partial failure resulted in a less optimal return on investment for the intended surface exploration.
Conclusion
Despite the lander’s failure, Chandrayaan-2 remains a significant achievement due to its technological, scientific, and inspirational impacts, and provides crucial lessons for future missions.
The Green Revolution resulted in a great increase in production of food grains (especially wheat and rice) due to the introduction into developing countries of new, high-yielding variety seeds, beginning in the mid-20th century. The Green Revolution, spreading over the period from 1967-68 to 1977-78Read more
The Green Revolution resulted in a great increase in production of food grains (especially wheat and rice) due to the introduction into developing countries of new, high-yielding variety seeds, beginning in the mid-20th century.
The Green Revolution, spreading over the period from 1967-68 to 1977-78, changed India’s status from a food-deficient country to one of the world’s leading agricultural nations. In India, the Green Revolution was mainly led by M.S. Swaminathan.
It was a period in which Indian Agriculture was converted into an industrial system due to the adoption of modern methods and technology such as the use of HYV seeds, tractors, irrigation facilities, pesticides and fertilizers.
Impacts
Conclusion
Overall, the Green Revolution was a major achievement for many developing countries, specially India and gave them an unprecedented level of national food security. It represented the successful adaptation and transfer of the same scientific revolution in agriculture that the industrial countries had already appropriated for themselves.
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