Question

Wheat variety responsible for green revolution in India is
a. Jaya
b. NP-20
c. Durum
d. Sharbati Sonora

Answer 1

Hint: The main theme of the green revolution is to introduce the high yield variety of seeds and utilizing the fertilizers and the irrigation to maximum, so it makes to produce crops in a self-sufficient manner, so there will be no need to depend on other countries.

Complete answer:
- It happened nearly around the year of 1960, it was started by the government along with geneticist M.S Swaminathan.
- M.S Swaminathan is considered as the father of the green revolution.
- The first step is they introduced the high yield variety seeds.
- In the green revolution, they focus on wheat crops.
- Other options such as Jaya is a variety of rice crop,
- High yield variety produces very good crops if they were grown in nutrient-rich soil and with good irrigation facilities.
- So in India, at the time of the green revolution, they chose states such as Tamil Nadu and Punjab.
- The important thing required in high yield seeds is a proper water supply, so in the time of the green revolution, irrigation facilities had increased, so that the farmers no longer needed to depend on monsoons.
- In this green revolution they mainly emphasize the crops of wheat and rice.
- They won’t include any commercial crop cultivation in the green revolution.
- So from the above the given option Sharbati Sonora is the species belonging to the wheat, hence it is the correct option.
- Durum is also a wheat variety, but it’s mainly useful for economic purposes, and grows very less in India.
- Np varieties are present both in rice and wheat crops, but they are not utilized in the green revolution.

Hence, The correct answer is option (D).

Note: At the time of the green revolution, in order to increase the crop variety, the availability of fertilizers increased, and also to increase the production, the government also supplied so many machinery and tools to the farmers like tractors and all.