Intra-Regional Inequalities

The adoption of High Yielding Varieties have created intra-regional inequalities also. All the farmers, even in the states of Punjab, Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh and Kaveri Delta have not been benefited equally. It is the large, progressive and educated farmers who gained much from the High Yielding Varieties. The early adopters reaped much dividends from the new seeds. By the time the majority came to adopt the new seeds, income gains realised by the early

adopters generally disappeared. The average, small and marginal farmers could not gain much, while the late adopters gained almost nothing.

Thus, the High Yielding Varieties have had a discriminatory impact in which the large and early adopters were benefited and the small and marginal farmers who adopted these seeds late could not achieve much.