Synopsis The main and vital objective of this volume is to make in the book a few selected articles that represent some of the more worthwhile contributions to the knowledge of rural development. Basically these articles have been screened from an original list of several hundred articles from the different resources. However, few articles have been written exclusively for this volume only. While selecting the articles, Author has tried completely to emphasis the concept, principles and applied aspects of the rural development and have tried promptly to concentrate more on practical development oriented articles relating to science and technology. This volume will be highly useful to faculty members, agricultural teaching colleges, farmers and NGOs working on rural and tribal development and to the other researchers.