(1) accelerated output growth through technological ,institutional, and price incentive changes designed to raise the productivity of small farmers; (2) rising domestic demand for agricultural output derived from an employment-oriented urban development strate and (3) diversified , nonagricultural, labor intensive rural development activities that directly and indirectly support and are supported by farming community. To a large extent therefore, agricultural and rural development has come to be regarded by many economists as the sine qua non of national development. Without such integrated rural development, in most cases, industrail growth either would be stultified or if it succeeded would create severe internal imbalances in the economy.