India’s Green Revolution and the decades that followed delivered what many thought impossible. As the Hon’ble Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare notes in his recent article food grain output has touched 353.96 million tonnes—about 40 per cent higher than in 2014–15. Beyond cereals, India has witnessed a White Revolution in dairy and a Blue Revolution in fisheries. Milk output has soared from 20 million tonnes in the 1970s to 239 million tonnes in 2023–24, making India the world’s largest producer. Fish production has risen nearly eight-fold to 19.5 million tonnes in 2024–25, while egg output has jumped from 10 billion to 143 billion annually. India now even exports over 20 million tonnes of rice a year.

These are extraordinary gains. They have ensured food security for 1.4

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