Though Green Revolution has been a resounding success in terms of agricultural production, yet it has failed in its overall social objectives because

Options

A. it has not succeeded in making India totally and permanently self-sufficient in food
B. use of agrochemicals becomes very expensive for indian farmers as well as these have harmful effects on envionment
C. in regional terms, only Punjab and Haryana states, and the eastern plains of rivers Ganges in West Bengal state, showed reasonably good results, but results were less impressive in other parts of india
D. all of these

Answer

D

Explanation

The development of several high yielding varieties of wheat and rice in 1960 increased yields per unit area. This phase is often called the Green Revolution. However, for farmers in the developing world, agrochemicals are often too expensive, and further increase in yield with existing varieties are not possible using conventional breeding. Thus, it has not fully succeeded in making india totally self-sufficient in food with only some parts showing impressive results.