Describe the salient features of rural development experience in Bangladesh.

The key elements of rural development in Bangladesh are: (a) poverty alleviation and raising the living standards of the rural poor; (b) equitable distribution of income and wealth; (c) wider employment opportunities; (d) participation of the local people in planning, decision-making, implementation process, benefit sharing, evaluation of rural development programmes, and (e) 'empowerment' or more economic and political power to the rural masses to control the use and distribution of scarce resources.

The rural areas of Bangladesh face multifarious problems. Unless the problems are attacked from all dimensions no improvement of rural Bangladesh can be expected. The matter deserves most serious thought by all and requires to draw up a dynamic programme and action plan to achieve rural development a success.

Agriculture:

The majority of the people of Bangladesh live in rural areas and therefore the development of rural areas means development in agriculture which constitute the heart of our national development. At present, agriculture accounts for about one-third of GDP and employs about two-third of the labour force.

The main cause of low productivity of our agriculture is the primitive method of cultivation. In this model, a pair of bullocks and a wooden plough are the typical agricultural equipment used. A larger tractor can cultivate about 300 to 320 acres of land per day to a depth of about 12 inches. In western societies, the modern equipments are being used which influence to grow more production. Such mechanical equipments economies labour and increase the productivity per acre of land.

The role of agriculture in poverty reduction is interlinked with other features. These features are: social safety net, rural infrastructure development, micro-credit and other targeted programmes. It is absolutely necessary to focus on key areas by the public sector programmes e.g agricultural research, extension, seed development, marketing linkages and information networking, soil fertility and fertilizer use efficiency and integrated area and farming systems. The irrigated cropland can be expanded through appropriate land _____ _________ _______ ___ ________ ___.
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