Nature of Green Revolution (GR):

(i) Difference in availability of water and irrigation facilities.

(ii) Different levels of fertilizers use at right time and in right amount.

(iii) Differential flow of information regarding HYV seeds and their inputs.

(iv) Difference in the availability of new varieties of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides.

Here the line MCN denotes the minimum consumption need. It is fixed, If the level of consumption is lower than this, it means famine and death. The line MDC stands for minimum desirable consumption. This slopes upward slowly. This represents the change in attitude due to economic growth etc. Small farmers attitude towards risk and uncertainties will be determined by his traditional production function. We take two types of farmers advanced - A and backward - B. The B's production remains close to MCN but A's production has increased slowly and it is above MCN and close to MDC. It shows that A farmer is a risk taker in adopting new techniques as compared with B. So as long as A farmer lives hand to mouth, he cannot afford risk. The govts. of UDCs do not provide any assurance to small farm holders against risk. Moreover, the returns to the cultivators are low because of traditional marketing etc. Hence, the risk taking will remain missing.

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