Technology and Social Change among Farmers: An Analytical Study

Sudhir Kumar

doi:10.53724/ambition/v11n1.06

Authors

Sudhir Kumar Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Government Degree College Muwani Pithoragarh Uttarakhand, Soban Singh Jeena University Almora Uttarakhand, India. https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4990-3516

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53724/ambition/v11n1.06

Keywords:

Farmers, Technology, Agriculture, Development, Rural Society.

Abstract

This article focuses on the how technology help to social change among farmers and rural society because technology is a part of the being of man, technology and science are thus inevitable partners in a social system. Without understanding the existential reality (Science) one cannot hope to create blue prints of altering it as a part of one's 'tactics of living' (technology). A survey of farmers was carried out with the help of an interview schedule. Farmers are using new varieties of seeds. Economically well off and socially well-placed farmers and backward class farmers with big landholdings had shown higher levels of adoption small farmers were gradually picking up the new agricultural techniques.

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