Modernisation of Tribal Agriculture Technological and Cultural Constraints Sitakant Mahapatra This paper, based upon field studies in four selected villages of two Grama Panchayats in Baman- ghati sub-division of Mayurbhanj District, Orissa, shows that modernisation of agriculture in the largely tribal-inhabited Mayurbhanj district has been slow and halting because of the over-crowding of the agri- cultural sector, the small size of the holdings, the absence of irrigation facilities and a number of docio- cultural factors.