Friday 21 August 2015

Concept of Rural Development

The world bank sector policy paper 1975 sees rural development as an economic issue, that of raising the low levels of rural incomes, through agricultural modernization.

Anger (1973), defines rural development as:
Strategies, policies and programmes for the development of rural areas and the promotion of activities carried out in such areas as rural crafts, fishing, building and social infrastructure with the ultimate aim of achieving a fuller utilization of available physical and human resources and thus higher incomes and better living conditions for the rural poor and effective participation of the latter in the development process.
          According to Mabogunje (1981), quoted by Ukwu I.  Ukwu (1983), rural development is concerned with the improvement of the living standards of the low-income population living in rural areas on a self-sustaining basis.
          Rural development involves a process by which a set of technical, social, cultural and institutional measures are implemented with and for the inhabitants of rural areas with the aim of improving their socio-economic conditions, to achieve harmony and balance at the state, national and the regional levels. Ekong (2003).

          Rural development in Nigeria was viewed as the same with agricultural development.   It therefore goes beyond this and covers issues relating to social, institutional and physical infrastructure.

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