The significant and continuous increase in agricultural production due to the use of high yielding variety seeds, irrigation facilities, and fertilizers is known as green revolution.

The benefits of green revolution can be summarised as below –

1. In beginning the green revolution was limited to wheat and rice and so it succeeded in removing the ruler poverty of the states engaged in growing wheat and rice.

2. The traditional methods of farming were transformed into modern methods of farming.

3. It solved the problem of seasonal unemployment to a great extent because it became possible to grow more than one crop on a piece of land and so the workers could be engaged throughout the year.