B. Failure of Community Development programs - perceived lack of progress in alleviating poverty or stimulating growth. Increase productivity of crops a. New seed varieties b. Able to receive and use more fertilizer 3. Evaluation of Scale Issue 1.
Technology always diffuses unevenly.
Small farms may have been slow to adopt HYVs, but eventually they did, and they benefited as much as any one. Lower food prices are good for both urban and rural people who have to buy food, and many small farmers need to buy food. Lag in adoption may hurt small farms temporarily, by lowering earnings because of falling food prices. Technological treadmill Pre-green revolution agriculture is in fact more efficient, although lower yielding. The real change in the green revolution is in fertilizer use.