Green Revolution implies large increase in agricultural production due to adoption of new agricultural strategy which implied simultaneous use of better quality inputs like high yielding varieties of seeds, machines and tools, chemical fertilisers and pesticides, etc.
In India, new agricultural policy was started in 1960-61 with Intensive Agricultural Development Programme. Its objective was to increase agricultural production. and productivity to reduce dependence on imports for essential food grains. This resulted in a large increase in agricultural production especially, the crops of wheat and rice. In 1967-68 it started first in states of Punjab, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, but slowly spread to other states and crops.