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The article focuses on the planning regarding the introduction of technological change in Indian agriculture. The concept taken here is not the general question of application of science and scientific research in agriculture but, more specifically, to the adoption and extended use of improved tools, implements and machinery for carrying out various agricultural operations. Although a high proportion of ploughs still in use in India are wooden and on the whole the pace at which new types of ploughs, hoes, harrows, cultivators, seed drills, threshers and other implements have been adopted has been relatively slow in most regions, new drives to technological change are being increasingly felt. A study team which reviewed progress in different parts of India in respect of research, manufacture, supply and adoption of improved agricultural implements observed that agricultural institutes and research centres had not yet given adequate attention to some of the more pressing needs of farmers. Against the Indian political and social background, basic changes in the system of land management and property relationships have to be accomplished largely through consent, persuasion, demonstration and honest implementation of laws.