Rural Industrialisation and Infrastructure

The present publication describes strategy for rural industrial productivity, technology and rural industrial initiatives, developmental administrative infrastructure and case-studies in agro-industry development to help the reader in understanding the ground realities in this crucial activity of rural development. Besides explaining the progress and prospects of rural industrialisation it also examines the factors associated with production and productivity of rural industries. The material brought together in the following pages comprise papers, articles, excerpts, reviews and abstracts that collectively attempt to profile the salient aspects of rural industrial development. The publication is useful for the students, research scholars, planners and policy-makers, and administrators who are engaged in a concerted effort to translate plans of rural development into near-reality.