This documentary film was produced by Shantakaram Films for WAPCOS - Water And Power Consultancy Services to present the views of South East Asian Countries and Govt. of India on large dams, there benefits and there R&R problems in the '2nd World Water Summit' held in The Hague in Netherlands in February 2000.
The world's worst recorded food disaster happened in 1943, when an estimated 4 million people in eastern India died. At the time, people believed the Bengal Famine happened because India's farmers could not produce enough food to feed everyone. Food security—ensuring sufficient food production to feed a country's people—became the Indian government's biggest priority. "Green Revolution" is
the term that refers to the governmental focus on food production in India from 1967--1978. Previously, the country had focused on expanding the amount of land under cultivation, but as the population continued to increase at a much faster rate than food production, the government changed its focus. During the Green Revolution, attention turned to improving farming techniques.
There were three basic parts of the Green Revolution in India: (1) expansion of farming areas; (2)double cropping technique; and (3) improved seed genetics. Double cropping, harvesting two crops per year, was the primary feature of India's Green Revolution and required a steady supply of water. To make this possible, the government began construction of a network of large dams. Dams are able to conserve monsoons rains and irrigate crops all year, especially useful during the dry season.
In India, agriculture employs about two-thirds of the workforce and is the most important economic sector. Since the 1950s, there has been a 2.5% average yearly increase in crop output, mostly due to yield—how much food a plant or seed produces—and not to an increase in the amount of land being farmed. With the Green Revolution, the production of rice, the staple food of southeast India,
increased by 350% and the production of wheat, the staple in the northwest, increased nearly 850%.
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