Non-Farm Sector and Rural Transformation
Contents: Preface. 1. Non-farm sector and transformation of India\'s rural economy : an analysis of diversification/Mausumi Datta Biswas and Dipti Prakas Pal. 2. Role of rural non-farm sector in income generation and poverty alleviation in rural India/Pinaki Das and Sachinandan Sau. 3. Rural non-farm employment and levels of living : a state-wise analysis in India in the era of economic reforms/Jayanta Sen. 4. Promoting rural non-farm sector (RNFS) under multi-stakeholder environment/K.J.S. Satyasai. 5. Rural non-farm employment in Bihar/Ranjan Kumar Sinha, Rajesh Kumar Mishra and S.D.Mishra. 6. Gender discrimination in rural non-farm employment in India/D. Pulla Rao. 7. Employment generation through rural non-farm sector in India : challenges and opportunities/J.B. Komaraiah and Vikas Singh. 8. Rural non-farm sector in India : the role of unorganised manufacturing sector/Anupama. 9. Growth of rural non-farm sector and seasonal migrants : an analysis of rural-urban migration/Hansa Jain. 10. Rural non-farm employment in Punjab/Jasdeep Singh Toor and H.S. Sidhu. 11. Problems of rural non-agricultural workers : a case study in West Bengal/Tarak Nath Roy. 12. Rural non-farm employment and poverty reduction : an all-India and state level analysis/Arvind Awasthi. 13. Rural development : the vision from the employment generation in non-farm economy/Dilip Kumar Rana. 14. Non-farm sector employment in India and Orissa/Sudhakar Patra. 15. Production linkages between agriculture and non-agriculture sectors in India/Rajiv Khosla, H.S. Sidhu and Sharanjit S. Dhillon. 16. Rural tourism and rural development in India/Dhananjaya K.B. and Prashanth R. Desai. 17. Non-farm sector and rural development/D. Rajasekhar. 18. Changing the structure of rural employment and the growth of non-farm sector in India/M. Giribabu. 19. Growth and role of non-farm sector in the development of Bihar in the era of economic reforms : (a comparative analysis)/N.C. Jha and M.C. Jha. 20. Rural non-farm employment in India and rural development : ways ahead/Purna Chandra Mishra and Mamata Panda. 21. Role and importance of non-farm sector in employment generation in rural India and MGNREGA/Richa Rastogi, Vishal Singh and J. Narayan. 22. Role of non-farm sector in rural development/K. Pazhani. 23. Role of watershed management in sustainable agriculture development in India/T.P, Singh and Premlata Kumari. 24. Role of non-farm sector in promoting employment opportunities among male and female during post-reform period/Ravi Ranjan and Yogendra Kumar. 25. Importance of rural development and current scenario with limitation of farm sector/Kishore Kumar Roy Choudhury. 26. MGNREGA and rural development : a case study of Sardhna block in Meerut/Atvir Singh, Tejveer Singh and Nidhi. 27. Role of organized retail trading in rural development of India/Deepa Rawat and Deepti. 28. Rural non-farm sector : linkages of employment and poverty in India/K. Pazhani. 29. Non-farm growth and rural employment/Suman Radhika and Hemlata Jha. 30. Dynamics of rural non-farm employment (RNFE) in BIhar/Ram Pravesh Singh, Raghwendra Kumar Singh and Gopal Kumar Singh. 31. Linking growth between farm and non-farm sectors : the roadmap for re-agrarianization/Debes Mukhopadayay. 32. Role of non-farm sector in reducing rural un-employment/Pranay Kumar Roy Borman. 33. Role of non-government organizations in rural development/Rekha Ramesh Gaonkar and Elizabeth Joey Henriques. 34. Food processing : a growth-oriented evergreen industry in the non-farm sector as a powerful engine of a rural development in India/Shailesh Kumar and Ratnesh Kumar. 35. Poverty, health and health expenditure in India : an inter-relationship/Md. Abdus Salam and Md. Fakhre Alam. 36. Rural non-farm employment : some analytics and empirics/Bharti Pandey and A.P. Tiwari. 37. Rural non-farm sector development : cluster approach/Shalini Yadav. 38. Non-farm sector and rural development : (a study in the context of backward economy of Jharkhand)/B.K. Thakur, Brajesh Kumar Choudhary. 39. Rural women empowerment through MGNREGS in the state of Kerala/S.M. Jawed Akhtar, N.P. Abdul Azeez, Md.Masroor Alam and Nahid Akhtar Siddiqi. Index.
The nature and performance of rural economy has been changing in every country through diversification of activities on the one hand and increasing employment and income generation on the other. The farm and non-farm sectors are the two important constituents of the rural economy. Rural non-farm sector (RNNFS) in India has been gaining prominence in the rural areas over time and it is becoming more and more diversified. RNFS is regarded as the critical component of rural transformation in India, given the failure of the industrialization-led development strategies of 1950s to trickledown to the rural poor. The latter failed most obviously in their inability to absorb rural labour into the process of industrialization. RNFS includes all economic activities viz., household and non-household manufacturing, construction, handicrafts, processing, repairs, mining and quarrying, fishing, transport, trade, communication, community and personal services etc. in rural areas. Rural non-farm activities, thus, play an important role to provide supplementary employment to small and marginal farm household, reduce income inequalities and rural-urban migration.
However, absence of appropriate forward and backward linkages affect the performance of non-farm activities in rural areas. Low accessibility of market, poor infrastructure, support service weaknesses and intervention of the middlemen are impediments to the development of non-farm sector in the country. (jacket)
The nature and performance of rural economy has been changing in every country through diversification of activities on the one hand and increasing employment and income generation on the other. The farm and non-farm sectors are the two important constituents of the rural economy. Rural non-farm sector (RNNFS) in India has been gaining prominence in the rural areas over time and it is becoming more and more diversified. RNFS is regarded as the critical component of rural transformation in India, given the failure of the industrialization-led development strategies of 1950s to trickledown to the rural poor. The latter failed most obviously in their inability to absorb rural labour into the process of industrialization. RNFS includes all economic activities viz., household and non-household manufacturing, construction, handicrafts, processing, repairs, mining and quarrying, fishing, transport, trade, communication, community and personal services etc. in rural areas. Rural non-farm activities, thus, play an important role to provide supplementary employment to small and marginal farm household, reduce income inequalities and rural-urban migration.
However, absence of appropriate forward and backward linkages affect the performance of non-farm activities in rural areas. Low accessibility of market, poor infrastructure, support service weaknesses and intervention of the middlemen are impediments to the development of non-farm sector in the country. (jacket)
