HPH Agriculture and Rural Development by Prof. K. Venkata Reddy

Despite significant growth during the planning era, the occupational structure in India has not undergone a radical change. Still some 65 per cent of the population continues to live in villages, seeking employment and living in the agricultural sector. Rural India continues to lag behind the rest of the economy leading to growing gulf in the rural-urban disparities in incomes and living conditions. Poverty, iliteracy, ill-health and civic inertia are all concentrated in the rural areas. This book "Agriculture and Rural Development" brings out the emerging challenges and discusses the policies and programmes for holistic and sustainable development of rural India. Different issues that come up for analysis in this book are classified into SIX PARTS with contents spread over 36 chapters. The author makes extensive use of the latest data and information from the officially published reports.