The Three Decades of Green Revolution in a Philippine Village

Abstract

Using the longitudinal data on one rice village in the Philippines that were collected from recurrent household surveys in the past three decades, changes in agricultural productivity and production structure corresponding to the development and diffusion of modern high-yielding varieties of rice were fully documented. The micro village history shows how quickly the potential of new rice technology was exploited within about a decade and half since the release of IR8, the first modern rice variety from the International Rice Research Institute, and was exhausted thereafter.