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The paper examines the extent to which State Government policy in Punjab with respect to subsidy on electricity has succeeded in harvesting the full potential of modern agricultural technology by analysing the area under principal crops and their production over the period 1980-81 to 1995-96; human labour employed in agriculture due to change in cropping pattern; extent of farm mechanisation and insecticide use over time and the impact of change in cropping pattern on fertiliser use, pesticide use, groundwater table, etc.
Electricity subsidy in Punjab agriculture has helped to bring about 58 per cent of the net sown area under groundwater irrigation and enabled the state to contribute 38 per cent of rice and 69 per cent of wheat to the central pool....