Our society has a love-hate relationship with its rural communities. While revering rural areas as embodying the ultimate in quality of life, rural citizens are simultaneously denigrated as uneducated, backward, and unsophisticated. In this Article, Professor Bassett notes that our society's...

Low productivity and farmer business competitiveness are central issues for agricultural development and rural poverty alleviation. This study aimed to determine the influence of agricultural development on rural poverty alleviation. Data were obtained from farmers' groups in the North Buton...

For sustainable growth in agriculture, there is a need to improve productivity and reduce the costs. Farmers’ club programme initiated by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) in 1982, is one such initiative. These clubs are grassroot level informal forums. Such clubs...