which introduced new varieties for cultivation that could possibly increase the yield, and became popular for foodgrains, such as rice and wheat. New varieties which were able to raise the yield were developed by the International Agricultural Experimental Research Institute. Whether these newly developed varieties of rice and wheat are actually cultivated or not by farmers rather depended on the conditions, which were the completion of irrigation systems for agricultural use, and the possibility to obtain sufficient volumes of fertilizer at a reasonable cost. The green revolution succeeded in countries or areas where these conditions were broadly met.
Incidentally, it is said that rural Java is one such example of a green revolution success, because the character of these closed farming villages strongly affected this agricultural development process. The BIMAS project was a government led initiative from the late sixties onwards, for increasing rice production, based in Java. The government' 5 role in repairs and development of the irrigation facilities was large, as well as investing enormous subsidies in fertilizers. Basically repairs and expansion of the irrigation systems made during the Dutch period was the major project, and it is a dual control system in which the main irrigation canal was controlled by a public sector, while the end of the canal was controlled by village itself. Responsibility for popularizing the cultivation of these new high yielding varieties was given to specially appointed officials in central and local government, who would have meetings with various farmers representatives, who in turn would pass on this new agricultural information to the other farmers in their villages.
Farmers in Java positively adopted the new technology based on these high yielding varieties as long as it was supported by subsidies and brought them economic profitability as well. The farmers in Java didn't hesitate to adopt them after they received information about this new technology and understood that their economic profitability was large, despite being entrenched in village customs. Individual farmers could act rationally as long as it did not conflict with the customs. Economic development in Indonesia avoided falling into the 'Ricardian trap' as the government led agricultural development
