Special Programmes for the Rural Poor-The Constraining Framework

Special Programmes for the Rural Poor The Constraining Framework NS Jodha The Small Farmers' Development Agencies (SFDA) and the Agencies for Marginal Farmers and Agricultural Labourers (MFAL), though regarded as institutional innovations to help the rural poor, represent an extremely modest approach insofar as they do not contemplate removal of the basic causes which have stood in the way of the small man's participation in the development process in the past.