Women in Agriculture

Lesson 38 : Strategies for Transfer of Technologies

Nature of Technology

1. Technology should intervene to reduce and if possible eliminate drudgery.
2. Technology should be within the comprehension of the beneficiaries and suited to the rural situations existing in different parts of the country.
3. Technology should be such that would enable users to eam a living wage, interpreted as that comparable to the ruling agricultural wage in a particular area.
4. Technology should improve skill productivity and quality.
5. Technology should be within a low per capita investment, say, of Rs. 15,000/- or so.
6. Technology should use more and .more of renewable sources of energy and less of depleting sources.
7. Technology should result in increased production and consequently additional employment though it may in the incidence; appear to throwaway people away from their present occupation.
8. Technology in the final annotation should mean utilization of newer range of materials available in the countryside and production of essential goods or need, opening fresh avenues of employment for the large masses of unskilled labour.
9. Technology does not begin and end with the Improvement of tools, instruments, machines etc., but will also embrace techniques and diversification of production.
10. Technology is a continuous process of experimentation and hence will not remain static at any time.
11. Technology should retain the artisan in the village itself and should not be an instrument to motivate migration to urban areas.