The importance of rural industries to national economics and rural development Before analysing the relative importance of rural industries to national economics and rural development you have to define what the term “rural industries” means and what kind of different products or raw materials are processed within these rural industrial activities. With reference to the Expert Consultation on the Rural Industries, rural industrial activities can be divided into the following three categories: • Small-scale cottage activities, • Medium-scale village enterprises, and • Large-scale rural industries. This classification can be carried out on the basis of the following criteria: • location, • ownership, • labour source and organization, • complexity …show more content…
In many countries, and especially in some parts of Telangana, population growth, shifts in agricultural practices, diminishing land resources and continued urban migration, mean that there tend to be fewer income generating opportunities, and that many rural households are headed by women. There is an increasing need for the off-farm cash generating activities, and this is crucial if dependence on the declining agricultural base is to be avoided. For women, these activities must be compatible with the household duties and needs, child care and other responsibilities which the women bear. One of the advantages of many small activities is that the production can easily be stopped over planting and harvesting periods if necessary, so that they provide income in the off-season. With these income generating activities, the women can pay for school and hospital fees, and the food and beverages they produce are used both within the household and by other families in the local community, and in many cases are also carried outside the immediate community, the demand for which is increasing both as a result of shortages of fuel for domestic cooking and because of increasing …show more content…
Their proportion in the GNP of the country is significant. The importance of these cash crops to the national economy has clearly been indicated and analysed by TEAM (18), which states that more than 90 % of the production volume of these aforementioned commodities is accounted for by developing countries. The largest tobacco growing countries in the world are China, India, Indonesia and Thailand in Asia; Mexico and Cuba in Central America, Brazil in South America, and Zimbabwe and Malawi in Africa. For the national economy of Malawi, tobacco production is of utmost importance, accounting for 75 % of the country's export earnings. Its importance as an export crop is less significant in other countries. The Philippines and Indonesia are the main producers of copra in the world. These two countries alone account for almost 60 % of the world total production, followed by India, 10 %, Malaysia, 6 %, Papua New Guinea, 4 %, and Mexico and Sri Lanka, 3 %. Except for Papua New Guinea, where copra accounts for 2.3 % of the exports, most of the production is consumed on the home market. In fact, only 10 % of the world coconut production is actually processed into
McIlroy, R.J. 1963. An introduction to tropical cash crops. Ibadan University Press, Nigeria. 163 pp.
One of the largest issues facing the Global South today is food security. In many cases food security is closely associated with agriculture in a specific area. Due to several issues faced by post war agriculture in Sierra Leone a food security issue has arisen leading to income/consumption poverty. One of the issues facing in Sierra Leone is the number of citizens choosing to work in the mining industry as opposed to working in agriculture. Another issue faced by the agriculture industry in Sierra Leone is the displacement of many farm families due to the civil war and the affect it has on food production. The agriculture industry in Sierra Leone also faces this issue of rice importation into the country which lowers the income of farmers. These issues faced by the agriculture sector in Sierra Leone have lead to problems with food security and poverty.
The broad range of topographical elevations has encouraged agricultural expansion whose diverse production of food constitutes an important part of the Colombian economy. The agricultural sector contributed 14% of GDP, excluding coffee, with a production worth almost 11 billion US. In the hot lowlands of the Caribbean heartland, the inter-montages valleys, and the savannas of Orinoquia, there are immense plantations of bananas, sugar cane, rice, cotton, soybeans and sorghum, and large cattle farms that produce meat and dairy products. (Sited Dennis Hanratty)
most of their income in the city also due to the high demand for rural
...at small farms constitute 90 percent of the world’s farms and employment of 1.3 billion people. This dominates agriculture in developing countries because two-thirds of the 3 billion rural people in the world live off the income generated by farmers managing some 500 million small farms (Halberg & Müller, 2012, p.21). Additionally, there are benefits to land conservation for local communities that involves reduced environmental hazards, improvement of water quality from ground recharge, economic gains from agricultural production from exporting, and the natural settings that bring tourism generating the economy (McMahon & Urban, 2010 p.2). It is only through the awareness of this informational insight into the differences between community types and their transitions throughout time that the public can explore and discover economic incentives for rural communities.
Growing up in Midwest America, there is not much to look at. The trees, fields of grass, rolling hills, and small towns offer a dull environment for a teenager. There are hardly any monuments, sculptures, or architectural feats to gaze at in admiration. Ultimately, the Midwest appears very mundane. This monotonous landscape seems to push the idea of a typical lifestyle of conformity; one that customarily consists of attending school, finding a career, and settling down with a family. To fully procure an awareness and acceptance of different lifestyles, one must travel. Whether from town to town or on the other side of the planet, traveling allows a person to see the different cultures, beliefs, and beauties that make up our world; I believe in traveling.
With a population of over 1.2 billion India is sadly at the top of the chain with the largest number of child laborers in the world. India has a poverty rate of twenty five percent with fifty percent of the population being under the age of twenty five years old (Graham). In India agriculture is the norm for working. The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that seventy percent of child labor in India is in agriculture or related acti...
Japan, China, the European Union and Mexico are major export markets for Canada’s farm products.” The Canadian farming process can be as broad as saying the farmer plants the crops then harvests and eventually sells but because of the size of Canadian exportation of farming it is complicated. For example, Canola is Canada's most lucrative crop a regular bushel of canola sells for between six to eleven dollars. Canola was first found in india over two thousand years ago but is now being growth throughout western Canada. Canola is first grown and put through a multitude of procedures based on the fact that because canola is Canada's most lucrative crop farmers want to get as much money for it as humanly possible.
In this paper I discuss several assigned articles with regard to the assumptions, focus, time and space contexts, stated purpose, and comparison between certain articles. Except for one article, all articles in this weekly reading are assumed to use post-structuralist paradigm. In their article, Lobao & Meyer (2001) encourage the readers to use combination of macro, meso, and micro approach in understanding agricultural transformation rather than only macro approach. For example, they urge the Human Ecology Theory (PEP), which is micro theory about individual’s adaptation to the dynamic of environment like population density, culture and technologies, and bio-physical environment. They criticize the PEP paradigm as heavily oriented in structural approach, neglecting the dynamic of socio-psychological factors of individual and social practices. For Lobao & Meyer, micro level of the household dynamic is crucial to understand the survival mechanism of the smallholder farmers to seek “strategic business behavior” (p. 112). Moreover, gender division, particularly with regard to the struggle of women in on-farm and off-farm activities is important. The Lobao and Meyer’s article also highlights the regional context of agri-related policies, such as agricultural loans which tend to be biased to certain ethnic groups, a fact that may be overlooked by the PEP. For comparison, Bernstein’s article is also in similar vein, in which he looks at the case of Green Revolution in India as not “resource neutral” (p. 61), by giving more access to the richer farmers to any program innovation packages (like credits, supply of inputs, and information). Lobao & Meyer’s article’s on famers’ action in politic to defend their interests ...
Indonesia is the major producer of Palm Kernel oil with a quantity of 3.8 million tonnes, followed by Malaysia with 2.35 million tonnes. Indonesia and Malaysia are also the largest producer of Palm Kernel oilseed and the major exporters of Palm Kernel oil.
It’s impossible for poor rural women and their communities to cope with the effects of climate change when both are perpetually in crisis mode. Their capacity to adapt must be strengthened. Compared to men in poor countries, women face additional cultural, social and economic barriers that make them more vulnerable to climate change. They have limited access to productive assets such as land, credit, and extension services, and they continue to lack voice and decision-making power on agriculture policies and programs. As a result, they are in many cases the first casualties of volatile climate conditions, falling into food insecurity and malnutrition. This reality demands a gender analysis toward climate change mitigation” (Hunger report 22) This being said, our increase in involvement improving women’s rights for education, ability to voice their opinions and breaking cultural norms that restrict them will result in less stress as well as more food. This will break the cycle of poverty. Educating women agriculturally will benefit them and increase their involvement in growing and cultivating produce, which will lead to them selling what they make and gives in increase in their home’s
The second suggestion of setting better criteria for determining which institutions should be included in the study has also been incorporated when setting criteria. It has yet to be determined whether stand alone rural institutions, rural institutions associated with urban centers, or a combination of the two will yield the best results. At this point in time, this student is leaning towards the combination.
different parts of the world. In India, there is a great diversity which exists in the socio- economic and regional backwardness.