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Effective Sustainable Poverty Reduction and Rural Development Strategies for the Improvement of Indian Economy

Naveen Kumar

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All over the world, local governments, the private sector and even the various civil societies are discovering better ways to attain poverty reduction and rural development through local economic development strategies, the corner stone of sustainable national development. The people lives in rural areas are mainly depends on agriculture for their survival. The rural agricultural production and the whole consumption process play a chief role in the development of the Indian economy. The key aim of rural development is to enhance farm productivity, for attaining rapid economic transformation, increasing profits to farmers and to increase the household outputs of selected agricultural products. The given paper chiefly focused on the various strategies of rural development in the field of agriculture, starting from management of land, labor and natural resources to the effective harvesting, methods of preprocessing and various effective marketing strategies to be followed.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jrrpd.v2i1.179

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