To feed the burgeoning population the intensive cultivation is being followed with rice and wheat being the chief crops grown. Due to monoculture and intensive cultivation, along with crops, large amount of crop residue which is estimated around 600 million tons is produced out of which 70 per cent accounts from cereals. This amount further increases with increasing population as there is a need to increase production and area under cereals. The study comprised of two types of respondents i.e. adopted villages and non-adopted villages. One district of Punjab having large area under kharif rice was selected purposively. Further from one district 6 villages were selected from which three villages was selected randomly which was not adopted by any institution and three villages was selected purposively which was adopted by any institution. From each village 20 farmers were selected randomly, thus comprising sample of 60 farmers from adopted and 60 farmers from non-adopted villages, making the total sample size of 120. The study found that extent of adoption of mechanical paddy straw management techniques have been gradually increasing year after year. In case of happy seeder extent of adoption showed significant increment from 2.36 per cent in 2015-16 to 22.60 per cent in 2019 in adopted villages and 1.96 to 18.60 in non-adopted villages. Similar trend was found in case of Super SMS, Zero till drill, Rotavator. Whereas MB plough and mulcher showed increment in initial three years and decline afterwards decline in trend over the years in adopted villages.