Second Green Revolution/Agricultural Development without Pollution : A conference was held in December 2006 in New Delhi for deliberation on second green revolution whose theme was “Knowledge Agriculture”. This revolution was believed to be capable of facing the challenges of continuous agricultural development and world trade organization. 

The following attempts were taken under this revolution :

1. In order to achieve growth in agricultural production, it has been linked to all agricultural products like food grains, animal husbandary, pisiculture etc. and has been implemented for all of these. This is why, it is termed as “Rainbow Revolution”. 

2. Processing of agricultural produce for value addition and to develop them as drinking beverage industries was emphasized. 

3. Emphasis was laid on strengthening the agricultural infrastructure. Improvement of availability of agricultural finance, arranging cold storage and dry storage facility for storage of agricultural produce, arrangement for marketing of agricultural produce by rapidly strengthening them through improvement in transportation facilities, developing wholesale markets, improving communication facilities etc. 

4. In order to provide crop protection to the farmers, all the crops and agricultural processes were included in National Crop Insurance scheme. 

5. The eleventh five year plan laid more emphasis on second green revolution so that the trageted growth rate of agricultural development (4%) could be achieved, whereas actually, 3.3% growth rate was attained.