Impact of Technology on Agriculture Development in Sri Ganganagar District (Rajasthan): A Geographical Perspective

The study makes an attempt to assess the impact of technology on agriculture development of Sri Ganganagar district in recent years. Agriculture plays a decisive role in the economic development of any region. Agriculture is the main occupation of the people, and about 73% of the total population is engaged in agricultural pursuits. Keeping in view the pressure of population, the need arises to modernise our agriculture to increase food production. With the modernisation of Indian agriculture, the use of new inputs like fertilisers, high yielding variety of seeds, improved agricultural implements, and irrigation has increased considerably. With the help of these modern inputs, food grain production has sustained an upward trend. This upward trend in food grains production after the introduction of new technology of high-yielding variety seeds, fertiliser, improved implements and irrigation has been termed the green revolution.