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Kalyan Sona is a high-yielding variety of which crop?
Wheat
Rice
Maize
Barley
Wheat
Kalyan Sona is a semi-dwarf, high-yielding variety of wheat that played a pivotal role during India's Green Revolution in the late 1960s. Developed through the introduction of high-yielding semi-dwarf wheat lines from CIMMYT, Mexico, by Dr. Norman Borlaug and Indian scientists like Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, it helped significantly boost national food grain production.
Kalyan Sona is a semi-dwarf, high-yielding variety of wheat that played a pivotal role during India's Green Revolution in the late 1960s. Developed through the introduction of high-yielding semi-dwarf wheat lines from CIMMYT, Mexico, by Dr. Norman Borlaug and Indian scientists like Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, it helped significantly boost national food grain production.
The Green Revolution in India (initiated around 1966-67) fundamentally transformed Indian agriculture from a food-deficient economy to a self-sufficient one, heavily centered around dwarf wheat varieties like Kalyan Sona and Lerma Rojo.
Kalyan Sona is a well-known high-yielding semi-dwarf variety of wheat (Triticum aestivum).
It was widely adopted by Indian farmers during the Green Revolution due to its high resistance to lodging and disease adaptability.
Dr. M.S. Swaminathan is widely recognized as the scientific leader of the Green Revolution in India.
Option B (Rice) is incorrect because high-yielding dwarf varieties of rice introduced during the same era include IR-8 and Taichung Native-1 (TN-1).
Option C (Maize) and Option D (Barley) are incorrect as Kalyan Sona specifically belongs to wheat cultivars bred for optimal response to chemical fertilizers and irrigation.
Semi-dwarf wheat varieties possess strong stems that prevent them from falling over (lodging) under heavy fertilizer application.
A is correct тАФ Kalyan Sona is a high-yielding semi-dwarf variety of wheat introduced during the Green Revolution.
Questions regarding the Green Revolution frequently appear in Indian economic geography and agriculture sections, often pairing crop varieties like Kalyan Sona (wheat) and IR-8 (rice) with their respective architects.
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