much is being said and hope being done also about green revolution a second time but how many of us know and realize that how much difficult it is the first green revolution came at a time perhaps when we were just beggers, responsibility of a new freedom and very little and poor infrastructure and scarce scientific knowledge about agricultural prcatices with our farmers. so the seeds injected from CIMMYT into our fields gave them new life and thy food to us.
the genes that brought around the revolution too had travelled a world from japan to mexico to back to asia.
the bottom line was influx of new genetic material
the liberty to share and exchange the material and knowledge was therefore the reason that a country like us at that time within years became self sufficient.
is this going to be possible in the new IPR regime when all genetic material goes under the hammer of property rights and barring the exchange theerby
moreso over the increase in yield levels is yet to be achieved in india particullarly in the gangetic plain where still a gap of arounf 25 mtonnes exist when it comes to our R&D systems needs to be made more liberal, independent and with incentivs
