Yellow Revolution

Golden Revolution

Blue Revolution

White Revolution

Green Revolution

The Golden Revolution was the period between 1991-2003. During this time there was a big increase in horticulture production, which means there was more production of fruits, vegetables, and other horticulture products like honey and flowers.

Golden Revolution

Fruit and vegetables are important supplements to the human diet.

The cultivation of horticultural crops plays a vital role in the prosperity ofa nation and is directly linked with the health and happiness of the peopleby improving the income of as such they generate lot of employmentopportunities for the rural people.

India has made a fairly good progress on the Horticulture Map of the worldwith a total annual production of the Horticulture Crops touching over 149 Million MT.

Significances In Agriculture

India is the second largest producer of fruit and vegetables in the world(AP -18.5 Million MT-12% share)

India has been bestowed with wide range of climate and physio-geographical conditions and as such is most suitable for growing variouskinds of Horticultural crops such as fruit, vegetables, flowers, nuts, spicesand plantation crops (coconut, cashew nut and cocoa).

Status

White RevolutionThis white revolution or operation flood relates to the rapid development in milk production that took place in India after mid 1960's. This name is a variation of the name "Green Revolution" used earlier to describe rapid development in agricultural production in India.

A name closely associated with White Revolution is that of Dr. Verghese Kurien. This is because the origins of White Revolution can be traced to the efforts of Dr. Kurien at Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Situated at Anand in Gujarat State. This organization is better known by the brand name of its product - Amul.

Father Of White Revolution

Dr. Verghese Kurien is the man behind the success of Amul. He is called the “father of the white revolution” in India. He is also known as the Milkman of India. Kurien, set up the Anand model of cooperative dairy development, engineered the White Revolution in India, and made India the largest milk producer in the world.

Its Impact

This is a revolution like no other in the world. Operation Flood or The White Revolution as it is known in India has over the past five decades produced a constantly increasing sustainable flood of milk in India. It was of high quality and available in most parts of both urban and rural India. It helped transform the lives of more than 13.4 million farmers and increasing, most of them poor. Of them, 3.7 million were women. It helped women empower themselves and their families. Today, the Dairy Cooperative Network includes 177 milk unions. It operates in over 346 districts covering around 1, 28,799 village level societies. Today, India is the world’s leading dairying nation.

Its helps:-

Increasing milk production ("a flood of milk")

Augment rural incomes

Fair prices for consumers

Employment of people

Increase of economy in the country.

Status

From the above figure we can conclude that milk production is increasing rapidly year by year but it

is more fast consumed by growing and vast population .

Blue RevolutionBlue Revolution is the water equivalent of the green revolution and primarily refers to the management of water resources that can steer humanity to achieve drinking water and crop irrigation security. The aim of the ongoing Blue Revolution is to rapidly increase fish production in small ponds and water bodies, a boon to small farmers, the nation's nutrition and its gross domestic product.

It has resulted in increase of fish production to five million tonnes from only six lakh tonnes of fish fifty years ago. This includes 1.6 million tonnes of fish from freshwater aquaculture. Although the yield from marine fisheries has stagnated, freshwater aquaculture is growing at a healthy 6 per cent a year.

Result

Significances In Agriculture

i. Providing food securityii. Providing nutrition securityiii. Providing employment, fishing, aquaculture and a host of allied activities are a source of livelihood to over 14 million people in Indiaiv. A major foreign exchange earner.v.Blue Revolution has encouraged fish farming where farmers rear fish in tanks, ponds, or enclosed areas under special conditions that promote growth, instead of catching them from the sea.As a result of Blue Revolution, there has been a significant increase in the amount of fish available.

Today, India is pushing ahead with a Blue Revolution, the rapid increase of fish production in small ponds and water bodies, a boon to small farmers, the nation's nutrition and its gross domestic product. The Indian fisheries sector, which 50 years ago produced only 600 000 tonnes of fish, today produces 5 million tonnes, including 1.6 million tonnes from freshwater aquaculture. Although the yield from marine fisheries has stagnated, freshwater aquaculture is growing at a healthy 6 percent a year.

Status

Yellow Revolution

The oilseeds production scenario in India has witnessed a dramatic turn. The country achieved a status of 'self

sufficient and net exporter during early nineties, rising from the 'net importer 'state’, with a mere annual

production of nearly 11 million tons from the annual oilseed crops, until the year 1986,87. In a span of just a

decade, an all time record oilseeds production of 25 million tons from annual oilseed crops was attained

during 1996,97. This transformation has been termed as "The Yellow Revolution" and could be primarily

attributed to the institutional support, particularly the set up of the Technology Mission on Oilseeds in 1986.

Area, production and productivity of annual oilseed crops in India

Source: Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India.

Significances In Agriculture

• Significant outcome of this Mission and other related developments included the following;-

• i) the improved oilseeds production technology,

• ii) the expansion in cultivated area,

• iii) the price support policy.

• Now, India is among the largest oil economies in the region/world.

• The country also occupies a distinct position in terms of diversity in annual oilseed crops.

Status

The demand of oilseeds are continuously increasing due toincreasing of population very rapidly. Oilseeds are consumevery fast by such a vast population

So, As major crops, oilseeds meet the country’s needs for edibleoils. A second yellow revolution is crying need of the hour. Also,a technical breakthrough in dry land farming is needed tomaximize yield, productivity and farm income. Achieving theaim of making the country self-sufficient in oilseeds would havea great impact on agriculture and the economy and would helpreduce dependence on foreign markets.

Green RevolutionThe green revolution is the significant increase

in agricultural productivity resulting from the introduction of high - yield varieties

of grains , use of pesticides , and

improved management techniques.

In 1965 the present government of

Mrs. Indira Gandhi decided to take a major step on present Agriculture condition .

Thus "Green Revolution" was applied to the period from 1967 to 1978 basically in

parts of Punjab and Haryana .

At this stage the Green Revolution was concern only with Wheat & Rice .

Green Revolution In India

Dr.M S Swaminathan from India led the Green Revolution as the Project Director.

& Dr. Norman Borlaug from Mexico supported the Green Revolution through the introduction of high yielding variety of wheat seeds.

Father Of Green Revolution

Significances In Agriculture

The increase in irrigation created need of new dams to harness monsoon water. This in turn boosted industrial growth, created jobs and improved the quality of life of the people This lead to greater grain and rice productionhigher food outputs for LDC’sSelf-sufficiency for some countries (Pakistan-wheat exporter, India-11 m tonnes to 27 m tons from 1965 to 1972, Mexico- double wheat yields, Philippines and Indonesia-rice previously imported)Planting dates more flexibleEarly maturity, multiple cropping.

Status

The Green Revolution resulted in a record grain output of 131 million tons in 1978-79. This established India as one of the world's biggest agricultural producer.