Modern agriculture based on high yielding seeds, chemical using production and protection technologies and intensive use of natural resources paid rich dividends by bringing manifold increase in foodgrain productivity and production, enhancing farmers' income, reducing poverty and contributing significantly towards attainment of food self-sufficiency at the national level. Due to their positive impacts and institutional policy support in the form of prices, credit and input delivery, these technologies were fast and widely used by the farmers. However, in recent years the negative consequences of such strategies are becoming more evident in the Punjab state and have started overshadowing their economic as well as non-economic benefits.