India's Agriculture
What country sent India food aid during its food deficit crisis?
Who is the United States?
What led to the overuse of fertilizers?
What is subsidies?
India transformed from food-scarce to
What is food-surplus
These government-issued cards help farmers understand nutrient balance in their soil before applying fertilizers.
What are Soil Health Cards?
How much of India’s land is cultivated?
42.6%
This agricultural practice of producing a single crop at large scale boosts efficiency but pushes ecosystems beyond their limits.
What is monocropping?
Agricultural exports rose from $6.1B to what in 2013/14?
What is 43.6B?
Practices like Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) and Direct Seeded Rice (DSR) primarily conserve this critical resource.
What is water?
India is the largest producer of
milk, spices, cotton and pulses
India is expected to face severe flooding in this region as glaciers continue to melt.
What are the Himalayan foothills?
The Green Revolution was originally implemented to address this major national challenge highlighted during the 1943 crisis.
What is food insecurity
The ICAR has developed climate-resilient seeds and technologies under this national initiative.
What is NICRA
How much of India’s agricultural sector employs the working class?
42%
A 2.5–4.9°C rise in temperature could reduce India’s wheat yields by up to this percentage range.
What is 41–52 percent?
India transformed from food-scarce to food-surplus due in part to these high-performing seeds.
What are high-yielding variety (HYV) seeds?
What fixes nitrogen in the soil and boosts crop productivity?
Biological Nitrification Fixation (BNF)
What territorial division disrupted India’s food supply in 1947?
What is The division of Punjab?
Fertilizer overuse creates
an imbalanced use of nutrients
Decline in soil fertility
Pollution of local water bodies
The green revolution introduced what innovations?
What are high-yielding variety seeds, irrigation, fertilizers, and positive price policies?
Things the Indian govt is implementing in the future
climate resilient seeds, nutritious food
When is India's population expected to pass China
2027