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Monday, November 4, 2024
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Topic: Green Revolution

Punjab’s Green Revolution-era success is long over. Four factors now constrain its economy

Realising that the economic, social and environmental situation in Punjab is a matter of national concern is the first step in working towards a new arrangement.

MP is riding on an agri boom, but there are echoes of Punjab’s Green Revolution ‘failures’

MP has transformed into an agricultural powerhouse in the last 2 decades, but there are economic and ecological warning bells. This election season, farmers have a number of grievances.

Top grain producer but also top in undernourished kids: When MS Swaminathan talked India ‘paradox’

MS Swaminathan, the 'Father of the Green Revolution', passed away Thursday. In this 2004 interview, he talked about his vision for India's agriculture & the need to look at it as India's pride.

Chromosome sketches, rare photos, handwritten notes — glimpses from the life of MS Swaminathan

Archives at National Centre for Biological Sciences provide insight into mind of Father of India’s Green Revolution, include diary entries, Guru Nanak quotes, records of crop experiments.

‘Transformed lives of millions, more than a scientist’: Tributes for MS Swaminathan celebrate legacy

MS Swaminathan, the father of the Green Revolution and globally renowned agricultural scientist, passed away in Chennai Thursday morning. He was 98 years old.

Father of India’s ‘Green Revolution’ M.S. Swaminathan passes away at 98

The renowned agricultural scientist was instrumental in developing high-yielding varieties of paddy which helped India’s low-income farmers produce the crop in abundance.

Low poverty & inequality, yet Punjab can’t afford to rest on its laurels. Urban poverty has risen

NITI Aayog data shows multidimensional poverty dipped for state as whole but rose marginally in urban areas. Inability to steer state's economy away from agriculture played role.

Soybean should become the next egg. Needs NECC-type campaign, support

Soybean's Green Revolution curve flattened long ago. Time India invested more in the crop.

How to feed the world’s most populous country: grow more or eat less?

The answers from Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, two of the most important scientists of the 20th century, would have been very different, says their biographer Charles Mann.

Chidambaram Subramaniam—the force behind India’s green revolution who never took credit for it

Chidambaram Subramaniam, former minister of food and agriculture, introduced high-yielding seed varieties and intense fertiliser application, which paved the way for increased production.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.