The goal of the study was to find out if farmers were more likely to use Direct Seeded Rice as a way to save resources than Puddled Transplanted Rice (PTR/transplanting method) when there was a shortage of workers during the COVID-19 lockdown. During the years 2020 and 2021, a study was done in the Haryana district of Kurukshetra on the pandemic and the problems farmers had with it. Randomly, 25 farmers from each of the four towns were chosen for the study. The 100 respondents were then interviewed using a specific interview schedule, empirical data was collected from each responder individually, and the data was then analysed using standard methods. According to the results, most of the respondents (77.50%) were in the Low to Medium category, and 22.50 percent of the farmers were in the High category for the total level of acceptance of DSR technology during the paddy season (Kharif 2020). While most farmers (87.50%) said they would adopt DSR technology at a low to medium level, only 12.50% said they would adopt it at a high level during Kharif 2021. That seems to mean that farmers adopted DSR at a slightly higher rate in 2020 than in 2021. This is because there was a shortage of workers during the Lockdown in 2020, which made them more likely to adopt DSR than PTR*. In fact, farmers need more people to help with transplanting/PTR, and foreign workers were easy to find before the lockdown. This happened so that the farmer would have to start using the DSR Drill/Machine during the Pandemic Lockdown. So the lack of machines during sowing was the biggest problem, since farms needed them more than ever because foreign workers were hard to find because of lockdowns and other problems. Farmers also had to deal with weed growth, not knowing enough about DSR farming, rain before germination, not wanting to change, etc., which were all very important problems that made it hard for them to use DSR technology. Findings also showed that personality traits, such as education, access to farm equipment, exposure to the media, economic motivation, innovativeness, training on DSR technology, contact with extension, and a willingness to take risks, had a positive and significant relationship with the level of adoption of DSR technology at the 0.05 probability level. So, the overall results show that farmers aren't using the recommended practises for DSR. This means that the government needs to do more to raise farmers' awareness and keep up a strong promotion strategy that includes giving DSR farmers better incentives to increase the number of farmers who use DSR.