GREEN REVOLUTION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("green revolution" is a kind of...):

revolution (a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving)

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