In agricultural development, the production of food and fiber at optimum levels of quality, quantity, and cost per unit is viewed as the dependent variable, while the independent variables include all of the elements of production technology and other support activities. People and the opportunity for vocationally, economically, physically, and…

Assuming that schools, colleges, and adult education programs cannot alone produce significant rural improvement in developing nations, this booklet presents argument for educational policy that is part of a total planned rural policy and that incorporates an indirect rural bias. It is argued that if education with a rural bias is to be acceptable…