Green Revolution
The introduction of high-yielding varieties of seeds after 1965 and the increased use of fertilizers and irrigation are known collectively as the Green Revolution, which provided the increase in production needed to make India self-sufficient in food grains, thus improving agriculture in India. Famines in India, once accepted as inevitable, have not returned since the introduction of Green Revolution crops.
Exploding Population Failing Rains
Since 1950 India had expanded its farm lands by 35% and its yields per acre by roughly the same percentage by the 1960s. Its total grain production soared ,78% compared with 64% in the industrial nations. Then bad weather started to plague so much of the India’s (and the world's) crop land that many experts conclude that the climate itself is changing. Harsh winters, droughts or typhoons cut output in India (along with other countries). In Southeast Asia (and parts of Africa) the peanut crop providing mainly animal feed and cooking oil fell far below normal.
Food shorages on 60s and Green Revolution
It is hard to imagine today that there existed a time in independent India when the then Prime Minister of the country, Sw. Lal Bahadur Shastriji had to appeal to the nation to skip one meal a day. Our nation saw one of the darkest era when we faced acute shortage of food in the 60s. Ships from America brought in bad quality grain as charity to feel us and the Nation battled with the problems of rising prices and hunger.
2nd Anniversary of sankalpindia.net
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It is 2 years since we started sankalpindia.net. The site that started with some basic information pages has become the face of the Organization with over 2200 pages of quality content. It is you, the visitors of this site that make it so special. Please share your feelings on the 2nd anniversary of our site.
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As per the latest census what is the approximate tiger population in India?
1411. The lower limit of tigers is 1165 and the upper limit is 1657
The Project Tiger Directorate, now the National Tiger Conservation Authority, initiated refinement of the ongoing process of tiger estimation using pugmarks (footprints) in 2002. This was a collaborative initiative with the Wildlife Institute of India and 17 Tiger States.Poaching, loss of quality habitat and prey are the main reasons for the decimation.Estimation could not be done in the Indravati Tiger Reserve in Chhattisgarh since the area is inaccessible owing to Naxalite engineered problems. The census suggests that four landscapes -- Nagarjunasagar Srisailam, Ranthambhore-Kuno, Indravati-Northern Andhra, and Bandhavgarh-Sanjay-Palamau -- are in need of inputs.An earlier survey in 2002 had estimated the number of tigers in India at 3,700 -- with the population of those in protected sanctuaries estimated at 1,500.
Our national animal: Will it be extinct over the next few decades?
When was the Indian Railways inaugurated?
The formal inauguration ceremony was performed on 16th April 1853, when 14 railway carriages carrying about 400 guests left Bori Bunder at 3.30 pm amidst the loud applause of a vast multitude of people and to the salute of 21 guns.The first passenger train steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hooghly,a distance of 24 miles, on 15th August, 1854. Thus the first section of the East Indian Railway was opened to public traffic, inaugurating the beginning of railway transport on the Eastern side of the sub-continent.
In south the first line was opened on Ist July, 1856 by the Madras Railway Company. It ran between Veyasarpandy and Walajah Road (Arcot), a distance of 63 miles.
BDO: Busy Bees
A busy phase, for all blood related volunteers, has begun. Following the start of semester in February, increased enthusiasm, better plans and works have been taken. Issues like drawbacks of previous semester and other problems were discussed along with their solutions and improvements.