What was Green Revolution? Mention its any two positive and two negative consequences.

Green Revolution was introduced to bring about revolutionary changes in agriculture especially in foodgrains like wheat and rice to increase food production through high yielding varieties of seeds, fertilizers, and scientific irrigation. 

Positive Consequences: 

(i) In many parts, the stark contrast between the poor peasantry and the landlords produced conditions favorable for left-wing organizations to organize the poor peasants. 

(ii) It resulted in the rise of what is called the ‘Middle Peasant Sections’ who were farmers with medium size holdings who benefitted from the changes and soon emerged politically influential in many parts of the country.

Negative Consequences: 

(i) This created a stark contrast between the poor peasantry and the landlords. 

(ii) It delivered only a moderate agricultural growth i.e. a rise in rice and wheat production by raising the availability of foodgrains in the country. On the other hand, it increased polarisation between the classes and regions like the Northern States i. e. Punjab, Haryana, West-U.P. became agriculturally rich but others remained backward.