In a bid to return the country to food selfsufficiency, the Government of Kenya has been spearheading strategies for a new ‘Green Revolution’ in the food producing sector, as spelt out in its Strategy for Revitalizing Agriculture (SRA), a ten-year action plan launched in 2004. The SRA is entrenched in Kenya’s Vision 2030, the country’s framework for long-term investment and development (Republi...

During the 20th century, conventional breeding produced a vast number of varieties and hybrids that contributed immensely to higher grain yield, stability of harvests, and farm income. Despite the successes of the Green Revolution, the battle to ensure food security for hundreds of millions miserably poor people is far from won. Mushrooming populations, changing demographics, and inadequate pov...

The paper argues that Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) and Environmentally Benign Manufacturing (EBM) could play a very important role in the context of Green Revolution. The paper analyzes RMS as a machining system which can be created by incorporating basic process modules both hardware and software that can be interchangeable, rearranged or replaced quickly and reliably. The author...

The Green Revolution in Haryana has achieved much progress in agricultural productivity but at the cost of land and water degradation. Intensive agriculture during the Green Revolution period has brought continuous environmental degradation, particularly of soil, vegetation and water resources due to the use of high doses of fertilisers and pesticides. The adaptation of various modern agricultu...

Food problem became more severe after the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, presenting a series challenges to India’s agricultural sector. Even during good harvest years, food imports remain high. A large segment of people were poor. To mitigate these problems, India adopted farming strategies under the “Green Revolution” in the mid 1960s. The application of modern farming technology, in...