Sectoral Development

 Sectoral Development recognizes and supports Sustainable Development Goal accomplishment through interventions to reduce poverty, increase financial and/or gender inclusion, and build resilience.  These initiatives rely on natural resource exploitation and sustainable use forms of a cornerstone of all programs. on the basis of ‘unit of development, as mentioned earlier, three approaches are envisaged, viz., sectoral development, area development and target group development.

Sectoral development approaches refers to formulation and execution of schemes for development, of a particular sector of economy like agriculture or industry. For instance, the Indian planners thought of developing industries just after the Independence.

Therefore they made plans to develop technology or borrow it from other countries. Stress was laid on technological education. Many institutes and colleges were established, independently or in collaboration with other countries, such as the United States of America, Russia and England.

On the other side, funds were made available for heavy industries such as textile, steel and cement. Later on, when the country faced a food problem in the early sixties, the planners thought of developing the agricultural sector.

As a result, many agricultural universities were set up, which helped in evolving high yielding varieties of crops, insecticides and pesticides, and farm implements, like thrashers.

Extension services were made available to educate and persuade farmers, to adopt new agricultural technology, and loans were advanced to farmers quite liberally. You have seen the results of these efforts in the form of the green revolution. The country is now almost self-reliant in food.

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