Poverty and unemployment
- Poverty line is defined on the basis of nutritional standards. The list calorie intake is fixed at 2400 Cal/person/day for rural area and 2100 Cal/person/day for urban area. The people below these nutritional is an income standards are considered to be below the poverty line(BPL).
- Presently 24.4% population in India is below poverty line. It is 24.36% in ruler India and 24.50% in urban areas. National Sample survey Organisation(NSSO) conducts this survey.
- Unemployment simply means a situation when able and willing people are not getting jobs as per their own capabilities
- Indian Green Revolution is associated with the use of HYVS(highly yielding variety seeds), chemical fertilisers and new technology which led to a sharp rise in agriculture production during the middle of 1960.
- The term "Green Revolution" was given by American scientists, Dr William Gande.
- During the middle of 60s, Indian agriculture scientist developed a number of new highly yielding varieties of wheat by processing wheat seeds imported from Mexico. A similar improvement in variety of rice was also observed.
- The credit of this goes not only to Nobel Laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug, but also to Dr MS Swaminathan
| Revolution | Area |
|---|---|
| Yellow revolution | oil seeds |
| White revolution | milk |
| Blue Revolution | Fish |
| Pink revolution | Shrimp/Meat |
| Brown Revolution | nonconventional energy resources |
| Grey revolution | wool |
| Golden Revolution | horticulture |
