IMPACT OF COLOURFUL REVOLUTIONS IN INDIAN AGRICULTURAL SCENARIO
WHITE REVOLUTION:
Today Dr. Verghese Kurien"s 12th Death Anniversary Day. Dr. Kurien was a visionary without par. His leadership transformed India's dairy industry, empowering millions of farmers and shaping a self-sufficient nation.
The White Revolution was initiated to boost the production of milk and dairy products in India thereby transforming our country from a milk deficient nation into the world's largest milk producer. In 1965, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri approached Dr. Kurien to replicate the Amul model across the country. National Dairy Development Board was registered under the Ministry of Agriculture, and Dr Kurien was the founder chairman of NDDB.
The aim was to replicate the Anand pattern across the country, which started in 1970 as Operation Flood. In three phases, operation flood was launched across 700 towns of the country for empowering Indian farmers economically. Apart from this, he played a pivotal role in establishing numerous institutions to promote synergy and symbiotic benefits within the dairy sector, in making India the largest milk producer in the world. This helped India becoming the world's largest milk producing country from deficient milk producing country now with everyone's support in the process, especially rural women, who are the backbone of the Indian Dairy industry. India is leading the world in milk production since 1998. The cooperative societies made farmers self-sufficient, broke the shackles of gender, caste, religion, and community.
Its time we have a bird's eye view on on other major revolutions that had happened in our country
GREEN REVOLUTION:
The Green Revolution saw an increase in the production of food grains by using various modern technologies and farming products like fertilizers, HYV seeds, irrigation facilities, and pesticides. It was founded by the Indian geneticist (Late)M.S. Swaminathan and was commenced under the leadership of Lal Bahadur Shastri.
BLUE REVOLUTION
This Neel Kranti Mission in India started in 1985-1900 and is related to the aquaculture of the country. This contributed to the enhancement of the fishery industry into a modern industry and also increased the income of fishers. The National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) included various components to develop and increase aquaculture activity by using modern methods and equipment.
GOLDEN REVOLUTION
Founded by Nirpakh Tutej, this Revolution went on from 1991 to 2003. It was a major movement in India that saw the use of new innovative technologies to boost the production of honey and products such as flowers, fruits, spices, vegetables, and plantation crops.
GREY REVOLUTION:
It is associated with an increase in fertilizer production. This was in succession to the green revolution that was responsible for the high-yielding variety of seeds. The grey revolution was initiated to mend the things that went wrong with the agricultural sector. It aims to build a promising future for farmers and develop the agricultural sector in India.
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BROWN REVOLUTION:
It increased the production and demand for environmental-friendly coffee which was initiated by Hiralal Chaudhri. This revolution is currently taking place in Visakhapatnam.
RED REVOLUTION:
The increase in the production of meat was the core part of the Red Revolution in India Mr. Durgesh Patel is known as the father of this revolution. It modernized the processing of meant and upgraded technologies used for the same.
SILVER REVOLUTION:
The Silver Revolution witnessed an enhancement in poultry farming or the production of eggs. To achieve this, multi various private and government segments contributed to this revolution by using medical and applied science to rediscover ways to grow egg production.
PINK REVOLUTION
Its nothing but an increase in the export and production of meat in India. It includes the involvement of technology in the poultry and meat processing industries. The revolution includes meat testing facilities, cold storage and related infra facilities for growth,,, Durgesh Patel is considered as Father of Pink Revolution.
ROUND REVOLUTION:
It is the increase in production of potato yield. The prodn of potatoes was aimed to be increased by at least double or triple the single annual increase.
YELLOW REVOLUTION:
During the early 1990s, an all-time high of 25 million tonnes of oilseeds was produced from yearly oilseed harvests. thereby India went on to become a self sufficient country from the stage of net importer to net exporter.
PROTEIN REVOLUTION:
The Government declared a technology-driven second green revolution with an emphasis on improved productivity and a “protein revolution,” committing to a 4% sustainable increase in the agriculture sector.
BLACK REVOLUTION:
The GoI implemented various policies to boost this production by mixing ethanol - a renewable source of energy - with petrol to produce bio-diesel. This gave rise to an amazing result in reducing pollution caused by the emission of harmful gases. Needless to mention that this initiative also helped farmers switch to such alternatives which reduce pollutants. This revolution is therefore associated with an increase in petroleum in our country.
GOLDEN FIBRE REVOLUTION
It is related to jute production. We are aware jute is the vital vegetable fibre next only2cotton. When the industrial revolution began, jute was used as a raw material in the fabric industry and it is still being used in several cases to make strong threads and jute products.