GEOG 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Soil Salinity, Water Pollution, Female Education
2 Oct 2020
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Around 40% of bangladesh is covered in winter. Method: replace traditional seeds and farming practices with hybridized seeds that produce higher yields but require hire inputs. Hybridized: take 2 plants and bread them together to make a hybridized seed. 3 inputs you need to make them work. Result: india doubled grain production between 1970- 1995. Industrial growth: crop areas under high- yield varieties needed more water, fertilizer, pesticides, and fungicides. Growth of the local manufacturing sector (all employing people) Electricity: need for irrigation created need for new dams to hamess monsoon water hydro- electric power. Boosted industrial growth, created jobs india paid back all loans it had taken from the world bank. Farmers who were in an economic and social position to take advantage of green. Having the right social connections to get to the person who does water distribution numbers. Upper caste hostility towards those backward castes experiencing rising economic status.
