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Abstract
The rural areas of the Brahmaputra valley being endowed with numerous rivers and wetlands and composed basically of fertile alluvial soils create congenial conditions for the development of the agricultural sector. With the inception of human civilization in the valley, people gradually learned the art of tilling their lands using traditional tools and methods. Thus, the traditional agricultural system prevailed in the valley and people earned their bread using this method. However, as soon as the wave of agricultural modernization penetrated into the valley’s rural areas, it has altered the cropping practices and its impact on the socio-economic as well as the ecological aspects of the village. The degradation of the socio-economic, as well as the ecological conditions of the village, has altered the valleys’ natural landscape creating various problems, mainly rural depopulation and agricultural land abandonment. This paper, therefore, attempts to study various methods, techniques, inputs, and implements involved in cropping practices that were operated before the 1990s and post-1990s influencing the production pattern of Dolokhat village located in Lakhimpur district of Assam. The study is carried out mainly through primary surveys using the stratified random sampling method.