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Accepted Paper:

Sending technology to peripheral farming communities: a challenge ahead  
Santosh Kumar Rout (Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology) Bijoy Kumar Mohanty (Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology)

Paper short abstract:

Ensuring technology flow to drench the need of outreach people is a challenge. The Subalterns are crippled with abject poverty of both means and knowledge. The socialization of technology for this people has to consider the following barriers like poverty, attitudinal impediments.

Paper long abstract:

Marginalization is an inevitable consequence where ever globalization is the reality. This is exactly what is happening in Indian agriculture, covering the whole length and breath of the rural economy. More farmers are joining the Diaspora of out reach, subaltern community to face more bites of hunger and more brunt of impoverishment. The present inquiry highlights the factors contributing to the creation of new divide, the resource have not. Most of the factors are running in a meandering way the characterized the level of poverty and degree of impoverishment. The research outcome will rightly be destined for improving the reach out target groups for their much needed interventions. This also may go out in epitomizing the subaltern concept of redressing poor people interest both in societal and technology terms. Beyond this the other issues will crop up as ancillary development like gender and poverty, spatial distribution and accessibility and entitlement.

Panel PE06
Food security and rural development
  Session 1 Thursday 8 August, 2013, -