Rural development

• Rural development is a process through which rural poverty is alleviated by sustained increases in productivity and incomes of low-income rural workers and households by breaking the vicious cycle and establishing virtuous cycle .
• planned process using any form of action or communications designed to change the environment, techniques, institutions and attitudes of rural people in such a way as to eliminate poverty and improve their way of life.

Importance of rural development

• Local people are the foundation of local development.
• Peasant has potential powers for self-development.
• They do not lack brains, only lacks opportunities.

Conceptual framework of rural development

a) Goal: Improved rural welfare.

b) Contributory objectives: Employment, efficiency, sustainability, equity, empowerment.

c) Process: Rural structural and behavioral change

d) Mechanism: Rural industrialization, support service and delivery, human institutional development, resource management

e) Components: Agro industry, agrarian reform, science and technology, rural credit and cooperative, marketing and infrastructure, communication, education and training, social service and nutrition, community organization, decentralization, environmental and natural resource management, agro-forestry

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