Modern age

  Cultivation techniques introduced in the 1940s multiplied agricultural production. This agricultural technology and the resulting socio-economic political changes are known as the Green Revolution. At a time when many third-tier countries like India were facing starvation, the farming methods advocated by the Green Revolution paid off. Agricultural research structures started by the Green Revolution continue to contribute to agricultural technology. Although the various shortcomings of this cultivation are known in the long term and it is necessary to move to the next level of technology, the Green Revolution is considered as one of the major revolutions that happened in the world socio-technical economic political platforms. The Green Revolution popularized the use of primitive hybridization to increase yields by creating "high-yield varieties." For example, the yield of corn in the United States was about 2.5 tons per hectare in the 1900s. In 2001 it increased to nearly 9.4 tonnes. Similarly, the global average wheat yield was less than 1 ton per hectare in 1900. In 1990 it was more than 2.5 tonnes per hectare.