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PesticidesEcological changes• Increased use of pesticides to limit the high levelsof pest damage in monocultures.• Organochlorides -DDT and Dieldrin accumulatesthrough the food chain.• Toll on soil fertility.• Poisoning of farm workers• Contamination of water table.• Evolution of resistance in pest organismpopulations .Water Issues• Salinization , waterlogging, and lowering of watertables.
Ecological Changes cont..Biodiversity• Reduce Agricultural biodiversity• Susceptibility to pathogens that cannot becontrolled by agrochemicals.• Permanent loss of genetic traits bred into cerealvarieties over thousands of years.• Massive seed banks :International <strong>Plant</strong> GeneticResources Institute established.• Expanded agricultural development into newareas where it was once unprofitable or tooarid.
Page 1: Presented byRubeena MMSc Biotechnol
Page 4 and 5: Father of the "Green Revolution"•
Page 6 and 7: Why Green Revolution• Bengal Fami
Page 8 and 9: Increased nitrogen-absorbing potent
Page 10 and 11: Effects on Food Security“Dealing
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Page 22 and 23: Results of the Green Revolution•
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Page 30 and 31: Indo-US Alliance…A Boon or Bane??
Page 32 and 33: Gene bank break-in?Restrictions on
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