How gendered is farm technology adoption
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Indian agricultural policy has long worked with a neat fiction: a single, rational decision-maker called “the farmer” who receives information, weighs costs and benefits, and decides whether the household should adopt a new technology. That stylised figure – almost always imagined as a man – rarely corresponds to how real farm decisions unfold. In many rural households, men and women inhabit separate information ecosystems, and wield unequal influence over what finally happens on the farm.
As India accelerates its shift toward water-saving, precision agriculture, understanding these dynamics is not a constraint but an opportunity. By recognising how information flows inside households, policy can unlock faster and more equitable adoption of promising technologies.
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gender, agricultural technology, households, policies