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An Essential Pre-Requisite for Second Green Revolution in India.

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Title An Essential Pre-Requisite for Second Green Revolution in India.
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Creator Ray, S.K.
 
Subject Soil, Land Quality, Essential, Pre-Requisite, Second Green Revolution, India
 
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The first green revolution in India ensured food security, whereas the second green revolution
conceptualized by the Government of India is aimed at providing livelihood security to the poor farmers
in addition to ensuring food security for all. In such an endeavour, taking stock ofour natural resources
(notwithstanding the strategies for imminent climate change phenomena) is of utmost importance for the
sake of natural resource-based planning. India has enormous wealth of natural resources which includes
the soil and land on which depends our survival. However, their judicious use and on a sustained basis is
lacking. Although the green revolution from 1967 to 1978 has helped us to overcome poverty on one
hand, it has deteriorated the quality of our soil and land resources on the other as evidenced by lesser
enhancement in the productivity of crops. Hence on our march towards the second green revolution, it is
imperative that we sustain our resources under intensive land use and fast economic development under
the backdrop of the degradation status and changing trends of various management and environment
systems. Moreover, in view of the dwindling productivity, these assessments would help to develop
strategies for management of land and soil, prevention of land degradation, soil information system for
land use planning, climate change modeling and ecological disaster management essential for
manuscripting another green revolution. Thus the present paper would attempt to focus on discussing the
soil and land quality in the two important regions namely, the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) and the Black
Soils Region (BSR). About 200 geo-referenced samples from each of the IGP and BSR were collected for
the study. Standard methods were followed for the analysis of various soil physical and chemical
parameters. Standard methods were also followed for calculation of soil quality index using principal
component analysis. The land quality index (LQI) was calculated using matrix and with the help of
analltical hierarchical process (AHP). The results were depicted in the form of maps which showed that
most parts of Bihar and West Bengal had better soil and land quality as compared to the western states of
the IGP. In the BSR, Chhattisgarh, eastern parts of sub-humid Madhya Pradesh and Maharashta had
higher soil and land quality compared to its semi-arid and arid parts.
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Date 2020-07-01T05:52:16Z
2020-07-01T05:52:16Z
2016-11-10
 
Type Presentation
 
Identifier Ray, S.K. (2016) Soil and Land Quality : An Essential Pre-Requisite for Second Green Revolution in India. Paper presented at the International Conference on “Integraed Land Use Planning for Smart Agriculture – An Agenda for Sustainable Land Management” Indian Society of Soil Survey & Land Use Planning, Napur, 10-13 November, 2016, pp.42.
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Language English
 
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