Green Revolution
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The Green Revolution was a period in the 1950s and 1960s when new agricultural technologies were widely adopted and spread across different regions. It matters because this rapid transfer of farming innovations significantly increased food production during a time of growing global population.
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The Green Revolution, or the Third Agricultural Revolution, was a period during which technology transfer initiatives resulted in a significant increase in crop yields. These changes in agriculture initially emerged in developed countries in the early 20th century and subsequently spread globally until the late 1980s. In the late 1960s, farmers began incorporating new technologies, including high-yielding varieties of cereals, particularly dwarf wheat and rice, and the widespread use of chemical fertilizers (to produce their high yields, the new seeds require far more fertilizer than traditional varieties), pesticides, and controlled irrigation.