From the archive record
Green revolution as said by Dr M Swaminathan: 'The green revolution was the term coined in 1968 to mark the beginning of agriculture progress based on improved deals productivity improvement. Before that, we were having increased production but came from an area expansion, more area in agriculture. From 1968 onwards, our progress was more towards hectre per with high yielding variety of wheat, rice, bajra, rice and they were all grown with water. Several people died in Bengal famine in 1942. PT Jawarharlal said that everything else can be made but not agriculture. M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) established in 1988 is a not-for-profit trust. MSSRF was envisioned and founded by Professor M S Swaminathan, agriculture scientist with proceeds from the First World Food Prize that h