Modern Outlook in Rural Development

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Entrepreneurship development in  rural areas through dairy farming/Gopal Shankla. 2. Employment generation in agriculture: a special reference to coconut cultivation in India/C. Thamban and S. Jayasekhar. 3. System of rice intensification an empirical study/B.S. Nayak. 4. Empowering distress women through entrepreneurial activities: the SHG story of Assam/Gautam Purkayastha. 5. Self help groups leading to development of rural poor/Shankar Chatterjee. 6. Employment and income generation potentiality of dairy farming: a study with reference to self help groups/B.C. Das. 7. Changing dimensions of Indias Five Year Plans vis a vis rural development programmes: an overview/Bishnu Mohan Dash and Atul Pratap Singh. 8. Rural development through agroforestry/R.P. Dwivedi. 9. Self employment of women in agriculture/Binoo P. Bonny. 10. Information and communication technology and agripreneurship development/O.P. Mishra and M. Aditya.  11. Rural poverty reduction strategy in Andhra Pradesh: role of SERP/Shankar Chatterjee. 12. Self help groups in Rajasthan an experience of DPIP/S.K. Kataria. 13. Spatio temporal variation in ericulture in Assam/Manjit Das. 14. Rural poverty reduction strategy new initiatives/Shankar Chatterjee. 15. Planning for rural development: emergence of Panchayati Raj in India/Trilochan Dash. 16. Index. 

The book is compilation different chapters 15 chapters focusing on development of rural India. Various interventions like agriculture horticulture dairy self help groups have been explained with case studies for the development of rural poor. Grameen Bank experience has ushered hope for the rural poor as through micro credit primary secondary and tertiary sectors have been developing by scaling down of rural poverty. In the light of this the volume examines the ground situation in reality.