From the archive record
M.S. Swaminathan was one of the motivating spirits of the Green Revolution and he remembers those heady days which to a great degree transform the rural landscape of the country. Dr M.S. Swaminathan says "When a farmer, a poor farmer produced tried tons of wheat where they were only producing one ton, the whole technology spreads like wildfire. His small government program became a mass movement and that was a great accomplishment otherwise the Green Revolution would never come by any government program. It had come, the government was a trigger a catalyst but it was the farmers who made it a movement." This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours