Cultivation and Indian Rural Development - An Approach

Abstract

Cultivation also plays a significant part in rural growth. The main potential donations of farming to rural growth are in terms of sustaining employment, ancillary businesses, and environmental army. India is a country of villages and its growth is synonymous with the growth of the people alive in rural areas. But a big part of this people has been leading an unsure economic life due to the non-synchronization of service opportunities in agriculture sector because of the fast-growing population. Rural growth has been receiving increasing thoughts of governments across the world. In the Indian situation rural development assumes particular significance for two significant reasons. Firstly, about two-thirds of the population still lives in villages and there cannot be any growth so long as rural areas remain rearward. Secondly, the backwardness of the rural sector would be a major obstruction to the overall growth of the economy. India is predominately a rural country and farming is their main employment. In terms of methods of production, social association and political mobilization, rural part is extremely backward and weak. Moreover, technical development in field of cultivation have augmented the gap among the rich and poor, as the better off farmers adopted modern farm technology to a better level than the smaller ones.