What happened to the poor farmers after the use of new technology?

(i) For the poorer farmers, machines brought misery.
(ii) They got loans from banks to buy these machines.
(iii) Those who borrowed found it difficult to repay their debts’
(iv) Many of them deserted their farms and looked for jobs elsewhere.
(v) But jobs were difficult to find as mechanisation had reduced the need
for labour.
(vi) Production had expanded so rapidly during the war and post-war. Years
that there was surplus.
(vii) Wheat prices fell due to overproduction and export markets collapsed.
This created the ground for the Great Agrarian Depression of the 1930s
that ruined wheat farmers everywhere.