Green Revolution as Technological Fix to Agricultural Development

Volume 2 - Issue 1

Mufedei Mohammed Kasim* and Najib Umer Hussen

Received: January 19, 2019   Published: January 30, 2019

DOI: 10.32474/OAJESS.2019.02.000129

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Abstract

The beginning of Human being’s effort to meet the need for food production in parallel with the increasing number of population and environmental deterioration is lost in time. One of such known effort was green revolution which started in 1968 in order to revolutionize agricultural sectors through the utilization of modern technologies. Since agriculture is the fundamental source of livelihood for the majority of human population especially in developing countries, it will always be helpful to study any agricultural aspects to take lessons from it. Accordingly, this review article tries to study the historical, implementation and shortcoming of green revolution. The study only used secondary data materials.

Keywords: Green revolution; Agricultural Technology; High Yielding Variety

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