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Seeds of plenty, seeds of sorrow / Bullfrog Films presents ; a film by Manjira Datta ; director, Manjira Datta ; production (India), Sanjay Seth ; a Media Workshop production for BBC Television ; in association with Television Trust for the Environment and the One World Group of Broadcasters.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Developing stories. Environment and development 1,
- Developing stories
- Language:
- English
- Hindi
- Subjects (All):
- Green revolution--India.
- Green revolution.
- Green Revolution.
- Wheat.
- Serfs.
- Agricultural development projects.
- Agriculture--Social aspects.
- India.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--India.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects.
- Agriculture--Social aspects--India.
- Agricultural development projects--India.
- Serfs--India.
- Agricultural laborers--India.
- Agricultural laborers.
- Wheat--Effect of pesticides on.
- India--Economic conditions--1947-.
- Economic conditions.
- India--Social conditions--1947-.
- Social conditions.
- Punjab (India)--Social conditions.
- Punjab (India).
- Punjab (India)--Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Environmental films.
- Documentary television programs.
- Nonfiction television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (52 min.) : digital, sound, color.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English and Hindi with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- A documentary from India about the effects of the highly touted Green Revolution there. Credited with ensuring that India is no longer a developing countries "basket-case", the Green Revolution is widely regarded as one of the most successful development strategies of the 20th century. But this film reveals that in India (specifically in Punjab), it has helped to create a new serf class and the dramatic yields of the early years have fallen away in the wake of pesticide poisoning, fertilizer shortages, and the short-lived miracle wheat strains.
- Credits:
- Photographers, Jugal K. Debata, John Beck ; editor, Graham Whitlock ; music, John Barham.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: BBC, ©1992; previously released in 1994.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 7, 2018).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-sopsos Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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