and Gujarat where the use of bullocks has become oblivious. Bullock-cart has
also become outdated. All this clearly shows the role played by new technology
to change the mode of production.
New agricultural inputs:
The Five Year Plan throughout their history of implementation has given
new agricultural inputs. The electric or diesel oil-run water pumps have
revolutionised the old pattern of irrigation. The construction of dam has also
added great facilities of irrigation. The chemical manure and insecticides have
added much to the farm produce. Much of our food deficiency has been covered
by the agricultural growth. The green revolution is the result of the new input
and in making change in the pattern of agricultural production.
Improved Cattle:
India despite its being agrarian society suffered from scarcity of milk. But
supply of improved cattle has revolutionised the dairy produce. India is now at
the stage of white revolution. The production of milk has given rise to a large
number of by-products which have assumed importance of export.
Abolition of intermediaries:
The system of intermediaries in the form of Jamindars and Jagirdars
which was abolished by the middle of 1950s in parts of India where there was
feudal rule, a structural change has been observed leads to change in the mode
of production in the rural areas.
Development of Market Economy:
The development of market has also provided a large number of facilities
for the production and their better ways to gain profit in the market. It further
creating a consumer society where everything is for sale and it is promoting the
mode of production in a very efficient and effective manner. In this way
Marxian stress on production relations has been replaced by consumerism and
this new wave is transforming rural society and creating all over changes in the
mode of production.
In Indian context changes in mode of production primarily due to modern
technology is changing traditional economic and social setup. Yogendra singh
argues that in the contemporary social change that India witnesses, there is
profound significance of culture. He argues that the higher consumption level
which is being attained by the rural people indicates that despite being quite
traditional, the rural society has taken to new cultural ways of life. It must be
admitted that across the nation, the lifestyle and leisure time activities of people
have changed. It includes mode of consumption, style of dress, uses of synthetic
materials or artefacts, mode of transportation and the weakening of the
traditional interdictions about the consumption of meat, poultry etc. the
consumption of fruits, vegetables and milk products now has a much wider
base. The use of modern technology is primarily responsible in enhancing the
changes in people diets and its mass availability. The transformation due to
Green revolution and White revolution should be accounted in this perspective.