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This was a project, which we got as a form of case study! The Green Revolution in India first took shape in Punjab. It has significantly increased wheat production through the use of high yield variety seeds, pesticides, fertilizers, increased water supply to the wheat crops and advanced seeding and harvesting machinery. Though expensive, it results in high volumes of crops throughout the year and has contributed to an exponential increase in the production of wheat in Punjab. Through the mechanized approach in the Green Revolution, Punjab has become one of the major wheat cultivators in India, relying less on cattle for farming. This has enabled cattle farmers to focus less on producing cattle for farm work and more on producing high-milk-yielding dairy cattle. This is done by careful cross breeding with foreign breeds. The emergence of agro-service industries in Punjab, such as agricultural tools manufacturing and the bicycle industry, have significantly improved the industrial trade of commodities in the state. Wheat cultivation has contributed to Punjab's economic infrastructure with the development of truck transportation, renowned agricultural universities in Pakistani and Indian Punjab and numerous cooperative ventures. njab continues to be the wheat bowl of India. The state has once again topped the list of procurement of foodgrain contributing half of the total wheat procured in the country. Punjab's contributed 113,81,270 tonnes of wheat out of total 263 lakh tonnes procured from across the country by government agencies. "During ongoing Rabi marketing Season, the government agencies have procured more than 263 lakh tonnes wheat across the states", said a government note on procurement on Wednesday. As per data available, total wheat procured during the season is 263, 85,171 tonnes as on Wednesday. The government agencies had procured 246, 60,475 tonnes by May 21 last year. Besides Punjab, the other states from where wheat has been procured this season in substantial quantity include Madhya Pradesh (86, 87,092 tonnes) followed by Haryana (64, 62,094 tonnes), Rajasthan (19, 24,834 tonnes), Gujarat 18, 54,011 and Uttar Pradesh (11, 67,907 tonnes). The procurement report came barely five days after the government had announced that the country was heading for record foodgrain production this year. The government had on May 16 revised its estimate of foodgrain production, saying the country would collectively produce 264.28 million tonnes (MT) of foodgrains as compared to 257.13 million tonnes last year. Releasing its third estimates of crop production, the agriculture ministry had said the country was expected to set the records for both rice and wheat. "Rice production is expected at record 106.29 MT and wheat production is expected to reach 95.85 MT, again a record", said the ministry. The revised production took into account kharif crops of the year 2013 and rabi crops of the year 2013-14. Good monsoon last year had helped the country in achieving this feat. In the earlier estimates (2nd Advance Estimates) released in February, the total foodgrain production was pegged at 263.2 million tonne. "Record production has also been achieved in the case of tur (3.38 MT), gram (9.93 MT), maize (24.19 MT), all pulses put together (19.57 MT), cotton (36.50 million bales) and jute (10.82 million bales)", said the ministry.