improvement in food resources

• wheat, maize, rice, barley, millets and sorghum are examples of cerals. they provide carbohydrates.
• oats, berseem and sudan grass are examples of fodder crops. fodder crops are used to feed livestock
• pulses are gram (chick pea), green gram, black gram, pea, pigeon pea, lentils. they provide proteins.
• oilseeds like sunflower, groundnut, sesame, castor, mustard, linseed, soyabean are sources of fats, oils and fatty acids
• vegetables and fruits apple, banana, mango, potato, carrot, brinjal etc provide a range of vitamins and minerals along with small amounts of proteins, carbohydrates and fatss.
• fibres are cotton, jute, hemp and flax
• sugars are from sugarcane, beet roots
• green revolution was to increase food production in 1965
• dr. norman borlaugh and m.s. swaminathan were the scientists behind green revolution.
• m.s. swaminathan is known as the father of green revolution
• the father of white revolution is Dr. Verghese Kurien
• white revolution was introduced in 1970
• white revolution was for dairy development.
• Sam Pitroda is Known as the father of the Yellow Revolution
• yellow revolution was launched in 1986-87
• yellow revolution was launched to gain self sufficiency in mustard and sesame
• 1991-2003 is known as period of golden revolution
• nirpakh tutej is father of golden revolution
• golden revolution is related to horticulture and honey
• Silver revolution is a process of increase in the production of eggs by poultry farming.
• indira gandhi is father of silver revolution
• 1969-78 was period of silver revolution
• crops require climatic conditions, temperature and photoperiods
• photoperiod is the duration of sunlight that influences plants in their flowering, growth, formation of storage organs, falling of leaves.
• on the basis of photoperiod, crops can be devided into zaid, kharif and rabi
• kharif is between june to october
• kharif crops are also known as monsoon crops
• kharif crops are rice, maize, soyabean, black gram, cotton, pigeon pea, green gram, sugarcane, millets
• rabi crops are between november to april
• rabi crops are also known as winter crops
• rabi crops are wheat, barley, mustard, pea, linseed, gram, sesame
• zaid is between march to june
• zaid crops are muskmelon, watermelon, pumpkin, bitter gourd, cucumber
• improvement in crop yield is divided into crop variety improvement, crop production improvement, crop protection management