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cultivation is an indication of growth. Producing more output by way of increasing
yield per hectare through new farm technology is an indication of development.
However, in the latter case, some authors prefer the ‘economic progress’, implying
an increasing productivity per head. Development has many dimensions and
includes qualitative changes in social, economic, political, cultural, environmental,
and such other aspects. It is a continuous and unending process attempting to
improve all aspects of the society.
Development ultimately means development of man and, therefore, it is to be
judged by what it does to him. In the ...