Government Policy ( primary )

• Introduced the Green Revolution in the 1970’s due to high demand for food and constant food shortages. Aim is to increase food production and achieve self-sufficiency.
• Introduced high yielding genetically modified crops, use of irrigation schemes, use of fertilisers and pesticides
• High yielding varieties of rice and wheat are grown.
• Crop production per ha has increased, food supply soon outweighed demand and in the 1990’s India became a net exporter of food for the first time
• The Green Revolution has also brought some problems: Only states that could afford new technologies such as Punjab and Haryana have benefited
• Grown on large estates called Plantations, monoculture practice leads to loss of soil fertility