Introduction:

In the recent past agriculture in the rural areas became a relatively unrewarding exercise due to unfavorable price structures and poor productivity, resulting in migration to urban areas. Most of the poor in the rural areas are small farmers; tenants share croppers, artisans and landless agricultural workers. Due to seasonality of agriculture, employment is a major problem. Millions of youth and women, for want of any job opportunity, are joining the ranks of unemployed. This is due to limited access to natural resources. The organized sector has not been able to generate additional employment opportunities. In the recent past, employment elasticity to output growth of all the sectors has been falling. Agriculture sector is overburdened with unproductive employment. The large industry is catering to the requirements of urban areas. The modern small industry is concentrated in urban and semi urban centers. There is thus a new added dimension of increasing migration to urban centers, both for resources and skills. The only hope is to generate employment opportunities in the sustainable non-farm sector in the rural areas. The rural

Introduction:

In the recent past agriculture in the rural areas became a relatively unrewarding exercise due to unfavorable price structures and poor productivity, resulting in migration to urban areas. Most of the poor in the rural areas are small farmers; tenants share croppers, artisans and landless agricultural workers. Due to seasonality of agriculture, employment is a major problem. Millions of youth and women, for want of any job opportunity, are joining the ranks of unemployed. This is due to limited access to natural resources. The organized sector has not been able to generate additional employment opportunities. In the recent past, employment elasticity to output growth of all the sectors has been falling. Agriculture sector is overburdened with

unproductive employment. The large industry is catering to the requirements of urban areas. The modern small industry is concentrated in urban and semi urban centers. There is thus a new added dimension of increasing migration to urban centers, both for resources and skills. The only hope is to generate employment opportunities in the sustainable non-farm sector in the rural areas. The rural

Introduction:

In the recent past agriculture in the rural areas became a relatively unrewarding exercise due to unfavorable price structures and poor productivity, resulting in migration to urban areas. Most of the poor in the rural areas are small farmers; tenants share croppers, artisans and landless agricultural workers. Due to seasonality of agriculture, employment is a major problem. Millions of youth and women, for want of any job opportunity, are joining the ranks of unemployed. This is due to limited access to natural resources. The organized sector has not been able to generate additional employment opportunities. In the recent past, employment elasticity to output growth of all the sectors has been falling. Agriculture sector is overburdened with unproductive employment. The large industry is catering to the requirements of urban areas. The modern small industry is concentrated in urban and semi urban centers. There is thus a new added dimension of increasing migration to urban centers, both for resources and skills. The only hope is to generate employment opportunities in the sustainable non-farm sector in the rural areas. The rural

Introduction:

In the recent past agriculture in the rural areas became a relatively unrewarding exercise due to unfavorable price structures and poor productivity, resulting in migration to urban areas. Most of the poor in the rural areas are small farmers; tenants share croppers, artisans and landless agricultural workers. Due to seasonality of agriculture, employment is a major problem. Millions of youth and women, for

want of any job opportunity, are joining the ranks of unemployed. This is due to limited access to natural resources. The organized sector has not been able to generate additional employment opportunities. In the recent past, employment elasticity to output growth of all the sectors has been falling. Agriculture sector is overburdened with unproductive employment. The large industry is catering to the requirements of urban areas. The modern small industry is concentrated in urban and semi urban centers. There is thus a new added dimension of increasing migration to urban centers, both for resources and skills. The only hope is to generate employment opportunities in the sustainable non-farm sector in the rural areas. The rural

Introduction:

In the recent past agriculture in the rural areas became a relatively unrewarding exercise due to unfavorable price structures and poor productivity, resulting in migration to urban areas. Most of the poor in the rural areas are small farmers; tenants share croppers, artisans and landless agricultural workers. Due to seasonality of agriculture, employment is a major problem. Millions of youth and women, for want of any job opportunity, are joining the ranks of unemployed. This is due to limited access to natural resources. The organized sector has not been able to generate additional employment opportunities. In the recent past, employment elasticity to output growth of all the sectors has been falling. Agriculture sector is overburdened with unproductive employment. The large industry is catering to the requirements of urban areas. The modern small industry is concentrated in urban and semi urban centers. There is thus a new added dimension of increasing migration to urban centers, both for resources and skills. The only hope is to generate employment opportunities in the sustainable non-farm sector in the rural areas. The rural

Introduction:

In the recent past agriculture in the rural areas became a relatively unrewarding exercise due to unfavorable price structures and poor productivity, resulting in migration to urban areas. Most of the poor in the rural areas are small farmers; tenants share croppers, artisans and landless agricultural workers. Due to seasonality of agriculture, employment is a major problem. Millions of youth and women, for want of any job opportunity, are joining the ranks of unemployed. This is due to limited access to natural resources. The organized sector has not been able to generate additional employment opportunities. In the recent past, employment elasticity to output growth of all the sectors has been falling. Agriculture sector is overburdened with unproductive employment. The large industry is catering to the requirements of urban areas. The modern small industry is concentrated in urban and semi urban centers. There is thus a new added dimension of increasing migration to urban centers, both for resources and skills. The only hope is to generate employment opportunities in the sustainable non-farm sector in the rural areas. The rural

Introduction:

In the recent past agriculture in the rural areas became a relatively unrewarding exercise due to unfavorable price structures and poor productivity, resulting in migration to urban areas. Most of the poor in the rural areas are small farmers; tenants share croppers, artisans and landless agricultural workers. Due to seasonality of agriculture, employment is a major problem. Millions of youth and women, for want of any job opportunity, are joining the ranks of unemployed. This is due to limited access to natural resources. The organized sector has not been able to generate additional employment opportunities. In the recent past, employment elasticity to output growth of all the sectors has been falling. Agriculture sector is overburdened with unproductive employment. The large industry is catering to the requirements of urban areas. The modern small industry is concentrated in urban and semi urban centers. There is thus a new added dimension of increasing migration to urban centers, both for resources and skills.

The only hope is to generate employment opportunities in the sustainable non-farm sector in the rural areas. The rural

Introduction:

In the recent past agriculture in the rural areas became a relatively unrewarding exercise due to unfavorable price structures and poor productivity, resulting in migration to urban areas. Most of the poor in the rural areas are small farmers; tenants share croppers, artisans and landless agricultural workers. Due to seasonality of agriculture, employment is a major problem. Millions of youth and women, for want of any job opportunity, are joining the ranks of unemployed. This is due to limited access to natural resources. The organized sector has not been able to generate additional employment opportunities. In the recent past, employment elasticity to output growth of all the sectors has been falling. Agriculture sector is overburdened with unproductive employment. The large industry is catering to the requirements of urban areas. The modern small industry is concentrated in urban and semi urban centers. There is thus a new added dimension of increasing migration to urban centers, both for resources and skills. The only hope is to generate employment opportunities in the sustainable non-farm sector in the rural areas. The rural

Introduction:

In the recent past agriculture in the rural areas became a relatively unrewarding exercise due to unfavorable price structures and poor productivity, resulting in migration to urban areas. Most of the poor in the rural areas are small farmers; tenants share croppers, artisans and landless agricultural workers. Due to seasonality of agriculture, employment is a major problem. Millions of youth and women, for want of any job opportunity, are joining the ranks of unemployed. This is due to limited access to natural resources. The organized sector has not been able to generate additional employment opportunities. In the recent past, employment elasticity to output

growth of all the sectors has been falling. Agriculture sector is overburdened with unproductive employment. The large industry is catering to the requirements of urban areas. The modern small industry is concentrated in urban and semi urban centers. There is thus a new added dimension of increasing migration to urban centers, both for resources and skills. The only hope is to generate employment opportunities in the sustainable non-farm sector in the rural areas. The rural