Famines a distant memory now as crop yields have trebled

Famines occurred frequently in British India as farm yields were low. Before the Green Revolution in the 1960s, the country averaged less than a ton of cereal per hectare. The introduction of high-yielding varieties of crops and pesticides helped reduce food imports, which were draining India’s
small foreign reserve. Sixty years on, the average cereal yield has grown to more than 3 tonnes per hectare. Here's a look.