QUESTION 4
GS3
10 marks
Explain various types of revolutions, took place in Agriculture after independence in India. How these revolutions have helped in poverty alleviation and food security in India?
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7 min
150 words
What the examiner wants
Explain India's post-1947 farm revolutions and how each aided poverty reduction and food security.
Explain + HowMake clear how and why it happens: causes, process, and an example for each point.
Demand-wise check
- 1Types: Green (cereals, HYV), White (milk, Operation Flood), Blue (fisheries), Yellow (oilseeds), Golden (horticulture), Silver (eggs), Pink (meat)≈30 words
- 2Poverty: rural incomes, employment, cheaper food, women's income from dairy cooperatives≈30 words
- 3Food security: self-sufficiency, buffer stocks, PDS, NFSA backing≈30 words
- 4Limits: regional imbalance, groundwater and soil damage, nutrition gaps, pulses and oilseed imports≈30 words
Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.
Answer plan
List revolutions with focusPoverty linkFood security linkLimitsConclusion
Where marks usually go
- Only the Green Revolution
- No data on production rise
Draw this
- Table: revolution → product → key programme → outcome
Value addition
- DataFoodgrain output rose from about 51 million tonnes (1950-51) to a record 332 million tonnes (2023-24).Ministry of Agriculture
- ExampleOperation Flood (1970) under Verghese Kurien made India the world's largest milk producer.NDDB
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Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 32 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 29 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 9 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 7 ↗Same syllabus reference
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