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 Write a short note on green revolution and white revolution in IndiaIndia

Green revolution - Norman Ernest Borlaug laid the groundwork for Green Revolution, the agricultural technological advance that promised to alleviate world hunger. Great increase in production of food grains (especially wheat and rice) that resulted in introduction of high-yielding and disease resistant variety. It was characterized by expansion of irrigation practices, use of various farm tools or equipment and machines, use of fertilizer, pesticides, insecticides and hybrid seeds.  
White revolution - Dr. Verghese Kurien known as father of White Revolution or Operation flood a program started by National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1970 made India the largest producer of the milk in the world. Operation Flood's objectives included: Increase milk production ("a flood of milk"), increase rural incomes and improving the living standards of the rural poor 

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 white revolution:- Following the success of the Green Revolution which resulted in the increase in production of rice and wheat, the India government has taken up Operation Flood Programme to increase the production of milk and make India one of the largest producers of milk in the world. The phenomenal increase in the production of milk in the country is christened as the White Revolution. The White Revolution played a significant role in improving the living standards of the rural poor and consequently the rural economy. The co-operatives, which were set up to increase the production of milk in the villages, had played a key role in the progress of the rural economy. It will be no exaggeration if the prosperity in many of the Indian villages in attributed to the White Revolution.

Green Revolution :- Green Revolution refers to a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1970s, that increased agriculture production around the world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s. It forms a part of the 'neo-colonial' system of agriculture wherein agriculture was viewed more of a commercial sector than a subsistence one.[1]

The initiatives, led by Norman Borlaug, the "Father of the Green Revolution" credited with saving over a billion people from starvation, involved the development of high-yielding varieties of cereal grains, expansion of irrigation infrastructure, modernization of management techniques, distribution of hybridized seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides to farmers.


The term "Green Revolution" was first used in 1968 by former United States Agency for International Development (USAID) director William Gaud, who noted the spread of the new technologies and said,

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 can u make it a little shorter

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