Rural development refers to a range of strategies and policies targeted at improving the lives of the most socially and economically vulnerable sections of rural populations. While India has shown a marked decrease in extreme rural poverty between 2011 and 2023, about 28 percent of its rural population still experienced broad-based poverty, according to a 2025 World Bank report. As a large part of the rural population continues to rely on agriculture for its livelihood to some degree, policymaking in the area has generally focused on farming methods, productivity, irrigation, marketing of agricultural produce, and access to credit.
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