The Green Revolution in India started in _______________.

🔑Key Points:
-The Green Revolution was started in the period 1960s.
-It commenced in India in the year 1960s under the premiership of Congress leader Lal Bahadur Shastri.
-It is also known as the Third Agricultural Revolution.
-Norman Borlaug is known as the Father of the Green Revolution in the World and he received Nobel Peace Prize in the year 1970.
-The birthplace and burial ground of the Green Revolution is Mexico because Norman Borlaug was a native of Mexico.
-In India, Dr. M.S Swaminathan is known as the Father of the Green Revolution.
-William S. Gaud was the first person to use the word Green Revolution and he was an administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
-Green Revolution is related to the increase in the production of Foodgrains, especially rice and wheat.
-It leads to an increase in the production of food grains in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Punjab.