Indian Agriculture — The Green Revolution, MSP and Every Colour Revolution

A Country That Still Eats What It Grows

Agriculture is roughly a sixth of India's output but still feeds nearly half of all households as their main work. That gap — small share of GDP, huge share of jobs — is the single sentence examiners build questions around.

This chapter is a case study, not a theory. Three things happened, in order:

1. 1.1943–1965 — a country importing wheat under humiliating terms, living "ship to mouth".
2. 2.1966 onwards — the Green Revolution: new seeds, assured prices, and a wheat surplus within a decade.
3. 3.1970 onwards — the same idea copied into milk, fish, eggs and oilseeds, each given a colour.

Almost every question you will face is drawn from those three moments: who led each revolution, what it produced, and what machinery — MSP, CACP, FCI — was built to keep it running.

1. Who is regarded as the father of the Green Revolution in India?

2. Operation Flood, launched in 1970, is associated with the production of:

3. The Yellow Revolution refers to a rise in the production of:

4. Which body recommends the Minimum Support Price for crops in India?

5. Which of the following is a Rabi crop?

6. The high-yielding rice variety introduced during the Green Revolution, developed at IRRI in the Philippines, was:

7. The Blue Revolution in India is associated with:

8. Unlike the twenty-two mandated crops that receive an MSP, sugarcane in India is covered by: