Fertilizer policy change now time demand

Farmers used to do natural farming before the green revolution period, in which consumption of chemical fertilizers was negligible.

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production and productivity of crops were low at that time. From the country's repeated irrefutable, national food security was dependent on the import of foreign grain. More than 30 lakh people were starved in the Bengal famine of the year 1943. Under such dire circumstances, the policymakers, the father of the green revolution.

By importing dwarf varieties of wheat developed by Norman Borlaug and dwarf varieties of paddy from the International Rice Research Institute, sparked the green revolution in the country. To take complete production from these advanced wheat-paddy dwarf varieties and highbreed varieties of millet-jowar, the import and production of large quantities of fertilizers and irrigation facilities were expanded from ground water based tubewell. Agricultural reforms adopted in the green revolution round led to a multiplying increase in production and productivity of various crops in the country. Thanks to which for the last 5 decades, despite the ever-increasing population, the country remains self-sufficient in food grains.