Apart from more investment, what does India need to do to rejuvenate the green revolution?
We expect the same kind of green revolution, which we witnessed in the mid 60s and early 70s. But we have an unnoticed revolution in Indian agriculture. If you look at sugar production, if you look at cotton, or dairy milk production, poultry or fish, or horticulture–which is vegetables and fruits, even maize–you see that the production of these commodities has remarkably increased. Also, you will notice that this year we had record food grain production–230.5-million tons. We have not seen that kind of food production during the green-revolution days. At that time, the reason we realized it was a revolution was that we were hungry. There was a famine in 1966, and suddenly production increased. Now that kind of hunger is not there, so we are ignoring the increase in production. The introduction of genetically modified crops has been a controversial topic in India. Why are Indian farmers and activists concerned about GM foods? Among activists, the apprehension is that [GM crops] may
