Opportunities and Challenges of Rural Marketing in India Arts

Facts state that India's 70 per cent of the population resides in hinterlands and 56 per cent of the overall consumption comes from there. Rural Indians are no more inferior to the country's urban clan. Increase in incomes, rising non-farm employment opportunities, higher aspirations and the Government's focus on rural sustainability schemes are major factors that have been driving the rural markets' growth. Rural spending was significantly higher at Rs. 3,75,000 crore (US$ 67.57 billion) than urban consumption at Rs 2,99,400 crore (US$ 53.95 billion) between 2009-10 and 2011-12; wherein rural consumption per person outpaced its urban counterpart by 2 per cent, according to a study by CRISIL and preliminary data released for 2011-12 by the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO).