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(a) Why do poor people stay poor in rural India?

(b) State some suggestions to raise agricultural productivity.

Answer:

(a) The major cause of poverty among India?s rural people is the lack of access to productive assets and financial resources. High level of illiteracy and lack of adequate health facilities are also responsible for the poor staying poor in rural India.

(b) The agricultural productivity can be raised by providing proper marketing facilities, provisions of better irrigation facilities, reduction of population burden on land, development of cottage and small scale industries and encouraging co-operative farming.