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The document discusses whether the Green Revolution is effective in bridging the rich-poor gap between farmers. While the Green Revolution increased yields through modern technology, it also led to job losses for traditional farm workers and was unaffordable for poor rural farmers. Advanced machinery replaced many farm workers, causing unemployment and urban migration that widened income gaps. Poor farmers could not pay for expensive new techniques and lacked knowledge to use them effectively. However, higher yields and incomes from the Green Revolution could eventually help farmers improve their farms and narrow technological gaps with wealthy farmers. But the document concludes the Green Revolution is not the most effective way to close income gaps because many poor farmers cannot first afford the necessary capital investments.

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Green Revolution Essay

The document discusses whether the Green Revolution is effective in bridging the rich-poor gap between farmers. While the Green Revolution increased yields through modern technology, it also led to job losses for traditional farm workers and was unaffordable for poor rural farmers. Advanced machinery replaced many farm workers, causing unemployment and urban migration that widened income gaps. Poor farmers could not pay for expensive new techniques and lacked knowledge to use them effectively. However, higher yields and incomes from the Green Revolution could eventually help farmers improve their farms and narrow technological gaps with wealthy farmers. But the document concludes the Green Revolution is not the most effective way to close income gaps because many poor farmers cannot first afford the necessary capital investments.

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Question: The Green Revolution is most effective in bridging the rich poor gap between

the farmers. Do you agree? Explain your answer.


I disagree with the statement “The Green Revolution is the most effective in the bridging the rich poor gap
between the farmers.” to a large extent. Green Revolution is a movement in the 1960s to help LDCs increase
their production of food crops through use of modern technology.
First of all, the implementation of Green Revolution will lead to the loss of jobs for traditional farm workers
who are gradually replaced by machinery. This because advanced machinery are now realised by farmers that
they provide better accuracy and efficiency than man. Thus, the loss of jobs in the rural sector would lead to
mass urban migration, where the men all leave the rural counties, flocking to the towns to hunt jobs and leaving
the rural sectors with fewer men and thus even lesser revenue to be brought in. Thus, instead of narrowing gaps,
the rich-poor gap is further widened.

Moreover, rural and traditional farmers plagued with poverty are unable to afford green revolution techniques
and suggested implementations at all. This is because the capital involved for these advanced technology is very
high, and some rural farmers even have problems coping with the financial management of such small farms, let
alone say big and industralised ones. Even with government’s financial aid for all those expensive facilities, the
rural farmers are mostly illiterate and uneducated, with hardly any knowledge and exposure to management of
sophisticated irrigation, how to maximize the benefits of all those chemical fertilizers, how they could go about
maneuvering those complicated combined harvesters. They need to be trained with the necessary skills on
managing an industrialized farm, in order to reap higher yields. Green Revolution, the introduction of these
improvised farming techniques alone will not be enough to allow rural farmers to benefit.

On the other hand, there are many stated benefits of green revolution too. The increase in yields and outputs due
to the efficient and successful green revolution scheme would help the rural farmers reap greater harvest, and
even surpluses for external sale, and this would help them increase their income, instead of only getting enough
to substantiate life. With more cash at hand, there would naturally be increased standard of living, where
farmers are contented with life conditions enough, to start thinking about renovating and improving their farms.
Only then, they will start to use these extra cash to implement more and better green revolution recommended
facilities, such as better machinery, better chemicals, larger farmland, higher quality HYVs, better irrigation
facilities etc. This will significantly narrow the gap of technology development difference between the urban
farmers and the poor farmers, and once with this good farming technology, they can now produce harvests with
good quality and high yields, the surplus money is cycled to reap greater gains again.

Also, there would be apparent increase of overall revenue for rural counties, thus making exporting, trading and
foreign exchange possible, and with more interaction and communication with the more advanced urban people,
the traditional farmers and thus exposed to influence and introduction to better farming techniques and facilities,
facilitates improvements and honing of skills. They will lag behind no more and catch up with the
developments.

In conclusion, I disagree with the statement “The Green Revolution is most effective in bridging the rich poor
gap between the farmers.” to a large extent as I think that the most fundamental thing the farmers would require
in the first place is capital to implement the facilities. This is because not all farmers can afford to take out huge
sums of money on improving their farm when they have hardly enough to eat. It is not a prerequisite the
government has to definitely fork out money. If there is no capital, it would all sum up to empty talk. Thus, I
conclude that I do not think green revolution is the most effective way to bridge the rich and poor gap in
farmers.

Ong Zishan (11) 2D

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