The Adoption of Tubewell Technology in Pakistan

The use and adoption of indivisible techndogy are not restricted by ownership or class structure. We have found, however, that in 1972,-and still in 1980, though tubewells were owned by a minor fraction of total farm househdds (and predominan tly by the large and medium farmers), they were used by a substan tial proportion of farm households. Predictably, .the user-owner ratio was the highest in the case of the small farmers in all provinces....