hence at least initially they need technologies that are appropriate to their conditions in other words a substantial number of ldc firms and farms can learn and acquire technologies such as capital equipment organizational knowhow and types of inputs used from other developing countries rather than from advanced economies or can develop and use homegrown technologies they are generally more labourintensive as they are developed in countries that also have surplus labour they are also more geared towards meeting the basic needs of the large swathes of the population who cannot afford luxury goods and services