ARDHI UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF SPATIAL PLANNING AND SOCIAL SCIENCE.

SUBJECT: AGRICULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT

SUBJECT CODE: RP 332

TASK: INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT ONE

LECTURER: DR. MDEMU & RHODA

S/N Name Registration number

1 MINJA TUMAIN H 22004/T.2018

TASK: Are there any possibilty to have GR in Africa?

Green Revolution is the way toward remodeling farming practices, methods and gear that
outcomes in more prosperous and effective horticultural creation[ CITATION EAC03 \l 1033 ].

Historically, the principal Green Insurgency happened in Mexico in the 1940's and the farming
alterations used to spike the transformation spread worldwide in the next many years. Green
Revolution are made conceivable through motorized hardware and the utilization of water
system and preparation. Before many Green revolution nations, for example, Mexico and the US
were not delivering enough yields to take care of their residents so they had to import items
[ CITATION EAC03 \l 1033 ]

It is true that Africa countries especially in the western side and sub-Sahara Africa to adopt
the green revolution that would able to reduce poverty. Model great many individuals in Africa
live in destitution and most of them live on ranches. African ranchers because of helpless soil,
temperamental water supplies, confined admittance to business sectors, lacking admittance to
fund and credit compounded by little government support. However, without doing any change
in the cultivating procedures and apparatuses utilized all through African nations, ranchers will
keep on attempting to develop enough yields to make enough to pay the bills or feed their
individual compatriots [ CITATION EAC03 \l 1033 ]. But due to the following reasons; -

1. Successful diffusion of improved crop technologies on the farm; Firstly, through the
improvement of the crop advancements is the cycle through which advances spread all
through the homestead area over the long run. While appropriation is the choice by an
individual maker to utilize another innovation at a given second this help to increase the
development of the market products that are direct to the farm, by the proper
improvement of the crop all this can be conducted through proper supplies of the
instrument together this equipment’s so as to support the high development of the
agriculture
2. Successful water system project (irrigation) in some Africa nations: furthermore, this
water system conspires particularly in some Africa nations like Aswan dam on waterway
Nile give water system framework or plan to mor than a large number of the ranchers in
provinces like Egypt, Sudan and some piece of Gaza along stream Nile the primary
destinations of water system frameworks is to help farming yield development, scene
support, diminish the impact of lacking precipitation
3. The existence of the advanced crop technology at different interaction agriculture
research Centre and some the national research programs; Also through the consideration
of this development of the Green revolution in Africa must a given county will consider
the involvement of the research matter upon the development of the agriculture that the
new technology on the crop must be so beneficial to the around population in the specific
area, though a proper research will help to promote on agriculture highly and bring the
benefits to the country.
4. Redesign of the traditional farming system in order to become more productive and a
proper sustainable: Agroforestry, intercropping, crop rotation, cover cropping, traditional
organic composting and integrated crop-animal farming are prominent traditional
agricultural practices. Through these methods must be consider producer a high product,
as a new system of the proper utilization of the resources such as the arable fertile land to
increase the productivity on the farms.
5. Proper agriculture policy: Lasty through a proper polices that means a policy to
determine, regulate and control the prices of agricultural products facilitate the best
investors in proper development of this green revolution scheme this will help in
accomplishing public independence in food creation, increasing the living expectation of
the homestead families, the protection of Agrarian Assets, to diminish the pressing factor
of populace in the rural area.

In generally, Convincingly, Green Revolution transformation is the best answer for some
non-industrial nations to address the Africa's food security, by supporting and improving
in provincial region by embracing the different redesigns of Horticulture hardware,
strategies as an aftereffects of effective agribusiness creations likewise were to lessen
neediness by aiding smallholder ranchers, including ladies, acquire more noteworthy
admittance to business sectors, credit and usefulness upgrading advances to produce
better returns of staple food crops. As a team with African governments, worldwide
partnerships, research establishments and farmers' associations.
References

 DOWNSON, N. (2016). GREEN REVOLUTION IN SUB SAHARA AFRICA.

 EAC. (2003). Towards a Green Revolution in Africa: Harnessing Science and
Technology for Sustainable Modernization of Agriculture and Rural
Transformation (SMART/AGRI) Sustainable Development.