ABSTRACT
During the 1960s, agricultural science produced the great development popularly known as the "Green Revolution." While scientists, scholars, and cynics from the developed nations have described this achievement both as a "miracle" and a "hoax". In 1967, William and Paul Paddock expounded the "thesis of triage" to assign priorities for delivery of United States food aid to Third World countries which were expected to face serious famines by the year 1975. Agricultural experts recommend frequent applications of insecticides and pesticides to ensure a successful harvest. Thus, the green revolution is not simply a product of miracle seeds, but also of exceptionally heavy use of other agricultural inputs such as fertilizers, irrigation, insecticides, and pesticides. Deterioration in the hydro-environment is another problem facing the Punjab as a result of the green revolution. On the socio-economic side, there are serious problems of storage, marketing, and distribution of the fruits of the green revolution.
