The Green Revolution
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- Created on: 10-05-15 10:54
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- The Green Revoltion
- Advantages
- Yields are up to 4X greater
- Shorter growing season = Extra Crop
- Farming incomes increased
- More machinery, better seeds ect
- Employment increased in industries supplying farms with inputs
- Irrigated areas increased
- By intensifying production on EXISTING land, it spares land tracts of willderness in Africa e.g
- Disadvantages
- High amounts of pesticides ect were needed
- This also costed a lot of money
- Rural debt increased due to farmers borrowing money
- HYVs require more weed control and attract more pests ect
- High income farmers benefitied much more than low
- Widening the income gap
- Created increased RURAL - URBAN MIGRATION
- Mechanisation increased unemployment
- Salinisation of crops
- Dependence on TNCs
- High amounts of pesticides ect were needed
- In ASIA, almost 90% of fields have HYVs.
- From 1970-90 RICE HYVs increased from 12% to 67%
- Advantages
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