In the year ______, Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, issued special stamps titled ‘Wheat Revolution’ to usher in the Green Revolution.

• Green Revolution in India:
-The term green revolution was first used by William Gaud and Norman Borlaug is the Father of the Green Revolution.
-After Independence, Indian policy-makers adopted all measures to achieve self-sufficiency in food grains.
-In the year 1965, the government of India launched the Green Revolution with the help of a geneticist, now known as the father of the Green revolution (India) M.S. Swaminathan.
-The movement of the green revolution was a great success and changed the country’s status from a food-deficient economy to one of the world’s leading agricultural nations.
-It started in 1967 and lasted till 1978.
-India adopted a new strategy in agriculture, which resulted in the 'Green Revolution', especially in the production of wheat and rice.
-Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, officially recorded the impressive strides of the Green Revolution in agriculture by releasing a special stamp entitled 'Wheat Revolution' in July 1968.
-The success of wheat was later replicated in rice.
Thus, to signify the achievements of the Green Revolution, a stamp was released by the then Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi entitled as ‘Wheat Revolution’ in July 1968.