Q.Which of the following is related to the 'Yellow Revolution'?
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The Green Revolution refers to the dramatic increase in Indian food-grain production achieved through plant breeding, mainly from the mid-1960s onward, which took the country from struggling to feed its own population to being able to export food grain. It rested chiefly on the introduction of semi-dwarf, high-yielding, disease-resistant varieties of wheat and rice — wheat varieties such as Sonalika and Kalyan Sona (building on Norman Borlaug's semi-dwarf wheat), and rice varieties derived from IR-8 and Taichung Native-1, later improved further into Jaya and Ratna. Between 1960 and 2000, Indian wheat production rose from 11 to 75 million tonnes and rice from 35 to 89.5 million …
India's major agricultural production booms are each associated with a colour-coded 'revolution' name — White for milk, Blue for fish, and so on — based on which commodity saw the surge. …
The Yellow Revolution is the increase in oilseed production.
The 'Yellow Revolution' denotes the marked increase in the production of oilseeds and edible oils in India. By contrast, the White Revolution (Operation Flood) is about milk, the Blue Revolution about fish/aquaculture, and the poul …
- CBSE 2025Set F1 markMCQQ.Which of the following is related to the 'Yellow Revolution'?(a) Milk(b) Egg(c) Fish(d) Oilseeds
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The Yellow Revolution is the increase in oilseed production.
The 'Yellow Revolution' denotes the marked increase in the production of oilseeds and edible oils in India. By contrast, the White Revolution (Operation Flood) is about milk, the Blue Revolution about fish/aquaculture, and the poul …
- CBSE 2024Set ANNUAL1 markMCQQ.Dwarfing gene of wheat is :(a) Norin 10(b) Pal I(c) Pelita 2(d) Atomita I
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Norin 10 is the dwarfing gene source used to develop the short, high-yielding wheat varieties of the Green Revolution.
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The Green Revolution's dramatic increase in wheat yields depended on introducing dwarfing genes that shortened the plant's stem, making it resistant to lodging (falling over) when heavily fertilised and bearing a large grain head. This dwarfing trait was sourced from Norin 10, a Japanese wheat variety, which was used by Norman Borlaug and his collaborators to breed semi-dwarf, high-yielding wheat cultivars adopted widely across India and other developing countries from the 1960s onward. The other options are dwarfing/mutant v …
- CBSE 2023Set ANNUAL1 markMCQQ."The Father of Indian Green Revolution" is :(a) Dr. M.O. Parthasarathy(b) Dr. Verghese Kurien(c) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan(d) Dr. M.S. Sabarinathan
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Dr. M.S. Swaminathan is called the Father of the Indian Green Revolution for pioneering high-yielding wheat varieties in India.
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The Green Revolution refers to the dramatic increase in foodgrain (mainly wheat and rice) production achieved in India from the mid-1960s onward, through the introduction of high-yielding varieties (HYVs), especially semi-dwarf wheat cultivars, combined with improved irrigation, fertilizer use, and agronomic practices.
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- CBSE 2020Set ANNUAL1 markMCQQ.________ is a better yielding semi dwarf variety of rice developed in India.(a) Sonalika(b) Kalyan Sona(c) IR-8(d) Jaya
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Among the given options, Jaya is the semi-dwarf, better-yielding rice variety that was bred within India (from IR-8 parentage), unlike IR-8 itself which was developed at IRRI, Philippines, and Sonalika/Kalyan Sona, which are Indian wheat varieties.
During the Green Revolution, plant breeding programmes developed semi-dwarf, high-yielding, lodging-resistant and fertiliser-responsive varieties of cereals.
- Sonalika and Kalyan Sona are high-yielding, semi-dwarf wheat varieties released in India (derived using Norin-10 dwarfing genes), not rice. …
- CBSE 2019Set HE1 markQ.Match the following: Column A item 'Swaminathan' with the correct term from Column B:(1) Big-Bang(2) D.N.A.(3) Tansley(4) Green revolution(5) Male-sterility.
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'Swaminathan' matches with 'Green revolution' — M. S. Swaminathan led India's Green Revolution.
Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, an eminent agricultural scientist, is known as the Father of the Green Revolution in India. Working with high-yielding, semi-dwarf varieties of wheat (developed originally by Norman Borlaug), he pioneered their introduction and adaptation to Indian conditions in the 1960s, dramatically increasing wheat (and later rice) production in India and helping the country move towards self-sufficiency in food grains. It matches Column B item (4) Green revolution.
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- CBSE 2018Set ANNUAL1 markMCQQ.Who is the father of Green revolution?(a) Verghese Kurien(b) M.S. Swaminathan(c) P. Maheswari(d) Mendel
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M.S. Swaminathan led India's Green Revolution by introducing high-yielding, semi-dwarf wheat varieties in the 1960s, dramatically boosting India's food-grain production.
The Green Revolution refers to the dramatic increase in food-grain (especially wheat and rice) production in India during the 1960s-70s, achieved through the introduction of high-yielding varieties (HYVs), better irrigation, fertilisers and improved agronomic practices. Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, an agricultural scientist, adapted semi-dwarf, high-yielding, disease-resistant wheat varieties (developed originally by Norman Borlaug in Mexico) to Indian conditions, and is honoured in Ind …
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