The survey included a module that
measured the likelihood that households
fell below the poverty line, using the
37%
42%
Progress out of Poverty Index.4 Using
this measure, Figure 2 presents the
proportion of technology customers who were living on less than $1 per capita perday and $2/cap/day at baseline (i.e. priorto purchasing the technology) by state. It is clear from this graph that users of treadle pumps were overwhelmingly
poor (96% and 97% below $2/day in Bihar and Orissa respectively) whereas drip irrigation reached substantial numbers
of poor households (77% and 62% below
$2/day in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu respectively), but not exclusively. Treadle pumps also reached a
much higher proportion of households living on less than $1/day.