This paper presents observations from a project that combines participatory rural development methods with participatory design techniques to support a farmers’ co-operative in Madhya Pradesh, India.

1 According to World Bank 1990 estimates, 30% of the poor in the world, defined on the basis of a common poverty line, live in rural India.

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A pilot project in a rural district of Tamil Nadu, India in which health is taught as a subject in primary schools by hospital-based staff is described.

In the recent years rural market have acquired significance and attract the attention of marketers as 68.84% population of India reside in 6, 38,000 villages and overall growth of economy has resulted into substantial increase in the purchasing power of the rural communities. Due to green revolution, the rural areas are consuming a large quantity of industrial and manufactured products. In this...

This chapter is concerned with the prevalence of non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease (CHD) due to nutrition transition and increasing urbanization in developing countries in general and in India in particular. It briefly describes the present position of rural-urban migration during 1991 to 2001 in India with speci...

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder and major health problem of all the countries. Low and middle income countries face the greatest burden of diabetes mellitus. The prevalence of diabetes for all age-groups worldwide was estimated to be 2.8% in 2000 and 4.4% in 2030. Objectives: The main objective of this was to find out the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in urban and rural ...

The rural population in India faces a number of health problems and often has to rely on local remedies. Psidium guajava Linn. (guava), a tropical plant which is used as food and medicine can be used by rural communities due to its several medicinal properties. A literature search was undertaken to gauge the rural health scenario in India and compile the available literature on guava so as to r...

Objectives: Adolescents remain largely neglected and especially girl from a deprived section in our society. The present study is an attempt to evaluate the nutritional status of early adolescent school girl from rural and urban areas. The study was, therefore, carried out to determine and compare the nutritional status of adolescent girl attending urban and rural secondary schools in Paschim M...

Rural development means as overall development of rural areas social, economic, political and cultural so that the people are to lead a pleasant life. Agriculture plays the most important and decisive role in rural development. Infect, nobody can deny this fact that most of the population in India is still living in villages and their livelihood is depending on agriculture. Therefore, we rightl...