This is Part 1 of Unscripted Breaks Down: The Green Revolution, a three-part series about the socio-economic as well as ecological effects of the Green Revolution on Indian Agriculture. Watch all three parts right here on YouTube.

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While it's a widely cited fact that the Green Revolution saved India from starvation, no one barely talks about the policies that led to this so-called 'revolution'. In the 1950's under the guise of a program known as Food for Peace, the United States opened a new foreign market for their surplus crops, where food-deficit countries could use their own national currencies to buy surplus American grains, and newly Independent India fast became their main buyer. But what initially seemed like a good deal for India, slowly turned sour.

00:00 Intro
01:50 Bloody British
02:45 Agricultural Reforms
03:24 Toh Problem Kya thi?
04:07 Americans ki Entry + PL480
06:55 Agriculture Takes A Backseat
08:10 The 1965 Fiasco
08:55 Shortage of Food Aid
10:03 A New Deal With America
10:55 Politics Behind Pesticide & Fertiliser Use
12:17 Norman Borlaug + HYV seeds
13:05 Why Punjab and Haryana were chosen
13:33 Input Subsidy + Output Guarantee
15:16 Shift to Monoculture
15:47 Happy Ending...
16:06 NOT!
16:16 Disincentive of PL480
17:10 Real Effects of the Green Revolution in Part 2!

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