Shaping Our Agricultural Future

The first 60 years of the 20^th century were marked by a sense of despair and frustration regarding our capability to achieve a balance between human numbers and the production of food grains and other agricultural commodities. In 1968, this mood of despair and diffidence gave wave to one of optimism and self-confidence in relation to our agricultural potential and our farmers ability to adapt and adopt new technologies, a phenomenon which was christened in that year as “Green Revolution”. This agricultural transformation helped to strengthen our national sovereignty in foreign policy…