Q.The Green Revolution in India, in its initial phase from the mid-1960s, was mainly associated with a sharp rise in the yield of which two crops?
Sugarcane (option a) is a commercial crop that was not the focus of the HYV seed programme, so option (a) is incorrect. Cotton and groundnut (option c) are commercial/oilseed crops that saw comparatively little benefit from the original Green Revolution technology package, which is precisely one of its recognised limitations (crop disparity). Pulses and oilseeds (option d) are, in fact, the crops most often cited as having been relatively neglected by the Green Revolution, so option (d) is also incorrect.
The correct answer is wheat and rice. High-yielding wheat varieties were the first to be widely adopted from the mid-1960s, especially in Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh, followed somewhat later by high-yielding rice varieties. These two foodgrains together drove India's shift from food shortage towards self-sufficiency.
(b) Wheat and rice
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