Growing phase of green revolution in the country and policy decisions for north eastern states-an analysis

As a result of the green revolution, there was significant progress in the agricultural sector in the country. Due to qualitative improvements in agricultural inputs agricultural production has increased. India got Self-sufficiency in food grains. Professional agriculture has got an unpectus which changed the farmers point of view. As a result of the green revolution per hector production and total productivity of wheat, sugar cane, maize and millet etc. increased significantly.The Central Government has announced a new national agricultural policy on 28 July, 2000. In this policy. Government targeted 4 percent annual growth rate in agriculture till 2020. To improve agricultural growth rate, government expanded investment in agriculture under special projects in north eastern states in 2010–11. A new paddy cultivation technique ‘SRI’ for paddy cultivation has been demonstrated to the farmer so that they can adopt it and increase their production. Due to this improved method in 2011–12 production of paddy has increased by 24.73 percent as compared to 2010–11 in North-eastern states. Total food grain production has increased by 13.85% in North-eastern states and 5.17% at the national level. This analysis was conducted during 2012–13 to find out the impact of green revolution on food-grain production with reference to North-eastern states. The main objective of this analysis was to see the contribution of North-eastern stated in total food grain production in India.