India has historically been at the forefront of global agricultural productivity, given the vast agro-ecological diversity the country has been blessed with.
According to statistics from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, India is the largest producer of milk, jute and pulses and the second-largest producer of rice, wheat, sugarcane, cotton, groundnuts and fruit and vegetables.
While agriculture came to India thousands of years ago, it was the Green Revolution, led by agricultural scientist MS Swaminathan,…
