Title: Effect of high yielding varieties technology in agriculture: evidence from rural India

Authors: Kiran Mor; Pratibha; Nishant Kumar

Addresses: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra-136119, Haryana, India ' Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities and Management, National Institute of Technology, Delhi, Plot No. FA7, Zone P1, GT Karnal Road, Delhi-110036, India ' Department of Food Science and Technology, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM), Plot No. 97, Sector 56, HSIIDC Industrial Estate, Kundli, District-Sonepat Haryana-131028, India

Abstract: In the agriculture sector technological change has taken place through the diffusion of improved production, tools and techniques such as agricultural implements and machinery yielding a range of seeds, fertilisers, insect repellents, tractors and improved irrigation equipment. This study attempts to investigate the trend of the use of new agricultural technology, its impact on food grain production and growth and variations in agricultural performance among different zones of Haryana as well as its socioeconomic and environmental perspective. It is a time-series study and the relevant data have been collected since 1965-1966, the time when this new agricultural technology was adopted in the state of Haryana. For the study, the compound growth rates and linear and exponential trends of various technological indicators like net area sown, total cropped area, net area irrigated, high-yielding variety of seeds, fertilisers consumption, pesticides consumption, number of tractors, food grain production have been worked out. To examine the dynamic behaviour of food grain production in Haryana (India), various mathematical models have been used. For this purpose, the factors affecting food grain's production over time have been identified properly and their impact has been estimated in terms of their marginal productivity and elasticity.

Keywords: technological indicators; trend values; growth rates; food grain production; socio-economic; environment; India.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPTI.2024.138683

International Journal of Postharvest Technology and Innovation, 2024 Vol.9 No.2, pp.128 - 145

Received: 16 Jun 2023
Accepted: 22 Oct 2023
Published online: 24 May 2024 *

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