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Which one of the following was not a part of the strategies followed by the Government of India to increase food grain production in India immediately after Independence?

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Immediately after Independence, the Indian government faced severe food shortages exacerbated by the partition, which saw one-third of irrigated land go to Pakistan. To address this, the immediate strategy focused on three pillars: switching from cash crops to food crops, intensification of cropping on existing land, and expanding the cultivated area by bringing fallow and cultivable waste under the plough . These measures were primarily extensification and land-use shifts. In contrast, the use of High-Yielding Varieties (HYV) seeds was not part of the 'immediate' post-independence strategy. HYV seeds and the associated 'package technology' of the Green Revolution were only introduced in the mid-1960s [3]. Prior to this period, farmers relied on traditional seeds with lower yields that required fewer chemical inputs [2]. Therefore, HYV seeds represent a later phase of agricultural development rather than the immediate post-1947 response.

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  1. [2] INDIA PEOPLE AND ECONOMY, TEXTBOOK IN GEOGRAPHY FOR CLASS XII (NCERT 2025 ed.) > Chapter 3: Land Resources and Agriculture > Agricultural Development in India > p. 36
  2. [3] INDIA PEOPLE AND ECONOMY, TEXTBOOK IN GEOGRAPHY FOR CLASS XII (NCERT 2025 ed.) > Chapter 3: Land Resources and Agriculture > Agricultural Development in India > p. 34
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