GREEN REVOLUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does green revolution mean? 

• GREEN REVOLUTION (noun)
  The noun GREEN REVOLUTION has 1 sense:

1. the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity

  Familiarity information: GREEN REVOLUTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREEN REVOLUTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("green revolution" is a kind of...):

revolution (a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving)

 Context examples 

The paper blamed India’s ‘green revolution’ in the mid-1960s, which focused on cultivation of wheat and rice to meet food security demands, for the decline of the area of coarse cereals.

(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)