Second Green Revolution: A Key to Sustainability in India

Green revolution has made a significant rise in supply of food grains, but several negative impacts like gradual loss of soil fertility, increasing alkalinity and salinity, water logging and depletion of ground water resources decreasing biodiversity, chemical poisoning of soils, surface water and food have come to the forefront. Agriculture sector in India faces a serious challenge in terms of sustainability. Green revolution has given rise to new set of problems, overuse of water and fertilizers. The present paper examines the consequences of first green revolution which make need for broad based, inclusive and sustainable second green revolution. For this it is required to produce more without depleting natural resources any further. The paper focuses on the requirement for second green revolution for bringing food and nutritional security for its billion plus population. Right strategies, policies and interventions in agriculture sector are necessary conditions for inclusive growth. There is urgent need to focus on efficient use of resources and conservation of soil, water and ecology on a sustainable basis.