Question

development of non farming activities

Answer 1

Higher agricultural production and more equitable distribution of income provide a mass market and effective demand for industrial goods and services. Viable rural development in its turn requires industrialization. Many industries can be located in rural areas. Integrated rural development requires the rapid growth of non-farm economic activities and opportunities for employment, especially through rural industries, and expanded infrastructures for power supply, transport and communication, housing, water supply, marketing and storage facilities, with due regard to technology and scale so as to benefit the rural poor. These measures would reduce rural exodus and also slow the growth of urban slums.