Comparaison entre deux régin affecté par la révolution verte
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A comparison between two areas affected differently by the Green Revolution: Punjab vs. Bihar In this part of our paper, we will base our analysis about the Green Revolution on the comparison of two areas largely dedicated to agriculture in order to have a more concrete approach, to understand and show how this kind of innovation can create or worsen inequalities within a country.
Punjab and Bihar: a short presentation
Punjab is a state in northwest India. The Indian state borders the Pakistani province of Punjab to the west, Jammu and Kashmir to the north, Himachal Pradesh to the northeast, Chandigarh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest. This region shelters more than 24,289,296 inhabitants on a 51 000 square kilometer territory.
The main activity of Punjab has always been agriculture although industries such as the manufacture of scientific instruments, electrical goods, financial services, machine tools, textiles, sports goods, starch, tourism, garments, and the processing of pine oil and sugar play a role in the economy.
It is also one the richest parts of India as the overall economy of Punjab has shown a growth rate of 6.29 percent during 2003-04 (P) and 5.39 percent during 2004-05 and “Agriculture is the key to the overall development of the State economy which contributed as much as 24.5 (Q) percent to Gross State Domestic Product at constant prices (1993-94) during 2004-05. As per 2001 census around 39.0 percent of the working population of the State is employed in this Sector” says the government of the state.
As for Bihar, it is a state in eastern India that lies mid-way between West Bengal in the east and Uttar Pradesh. Its 83 000 inhabitant population lives on 100 000 square kilometers. It makes Bihar the first state in India by density.
Unfortunately, Bihar lags behind the other Indian states in human and economic development terms, especially about Agriculture. Indeed, even if the economy of