WHAT IS GREEN REVOLUTION (WORLDWIDE AND NIGERIAN)?

The green revolution or third agricultural revolution is a set of research technological transfer initiatives occurring between 1950 and the late 1960s that increased agricultural production
worldwide particularly in the developing world. The initiatives resulted in the adoption of new technologies, including high yielding varieties of cereals in association with chemical fertilizer and agro-chemical, and with irrigation infrastructure, modern management practices and new farming practices with mechanization.Ford foundation and Rockefeller foundation were greatly involved. One key leader was Norman Borlaug, the father of Green Revolution, who was credited with saving over a billion people from starvation and received the Nobel peace prize in 1970.

Green revolution has spread to other part of the world, the one in Nigeria which is the adoption of all green revolution initiatives, method, processes and systems to the country’s agricultural systems was conducted between 1979 and 1983 by the federal government with the aims of encouraging large scale farming, establishing River Basin Authorities to boost the supply of water for irrigation, to increase production of food and cash crop for local consumption and exportation purposes.