ABSTRACT
The soaring population in developing countries and the industrial development of emerging economies have put an enormous pressure on food resources, resulting in an ever-increasing demand for greater agricultural output. There was a rapid growth in Indian agricultural production during the Green Revolution, which started in the mid 1960s. The data on C-based input into the soil for predominant crops was collected for Ohio, United States of America, and Punjab, India. Punjab is the highest consumer of nitogen and phosphorus fertilizers among all states in India, but the use of potassium in Punjab is lower than the national average rate. Punjab was the pioneering state for adopting the Green Revolution technology in India, during which grain production increased substantially because of increase in crop yields. Increase in crop yield during the Green Revolution in Punjab occurred more for wheat and rice than for other crops such as barley, maize, cotton, and sugarcane.
