ROLE OF RURAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES IN RELATION TO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA

SOCIAL SCIENCE

The research entitled “Perseverance Of Indigenous Culture Via Endorsing Rural Handicraft & Rural Development Circuitously”. The main objective of this research was to assess and examine the role of handicraft in promoting culture in Nedjo Woeda. Through purposive sampling method, a total of 40 respondents were selected from Nedjo Woreda. Questionnaire and Interview method are applied to collect information from the respondents, after all their accomplishment the result obtained from the data collected instruments were tabulated and analyzed through both qualitative and quantitative approach. According to this research, the majority of users of handicraft products are domestic tourists and local society. In this work, many respondents faced many problems. The producer’s expectation and the actual price of the commodities is not balanced, tax imposition is high and so on. Previously, handicraft was under developed because of law governmental emphasis given to the sector, the low status given to handicraft product worker and the use of backward technologist make handicraft products. Because of low productivity of labor, shortage of investment finance and the absence of sustainable market, the supply of handicraft products in the market is very low. The attitude and awareness of tourists and local society towards handicraft sector is better than the previous.

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