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UPPCS Indian Geography Gap Sheet: The Colour Revolutions of Farming.
UPPCS has asked 15 of these. 7 have not been asked yet. Lock the first list, then read the second: it holds what UPPCS has not used yet.
First, the concept
A 'revolution' here means a planned jump in the output of one farm product. Each one carries a colour name.
The Green Revolution (from 1966) used high-yield seeds, fertiliser and irrigation, first for wheat in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh. M. S. Swaminathan led it in India; Norman Borlaug was its global father.
UPPCS asks a colour with its product, and the person linked to it. Some colours have more than one meaning in books; the lines below give the meaning most used in exams.
✅ Already asked (15)
The main revolutions
- Green Revolution · Food grains, mainly wheat and rice
- White Revolution · Milk; Operation Flood, led by Verghese Kurien
- Blue Revolution · Fish
- Yellow Revolution · Oilseeds (mustard, groundnut)
- Golden Revolution · Horticulture (fruits and vegetables) and honey
- Pink Revolution · Onion, prawns and pharmaceuticals
- Red Revolution · Meat and tomato
- Brown Revolution · Leather and cocoa
- Grey Revolution · Fertilisers
- Black Revolution · Petroleum and biodiesel
- Evergreen Revolution · Lasting growth in all farming without harming nature; Swaminathan's term
- Rainbow Revolution · All the revolutions together, for overall farm growth
People
- M. S. Swaminathan · Father of the Green Revolution in India
- Norman Borlaug · Father of the Green Revolution worldwide; Nobel Peace Prize 1970
- Verghese Kurien · Father of the White Revolution; Amul, Anand (Gujarat)
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The main revolutions: 4 · People: 3
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⚠️ White means milk, Silver means eggs, and Silver Fibre means cotton: three 'white-looking' products, three different names. Blue is fish, not water.
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