Subject(s): Rural poverty -- Agricultural Productivity -- Economic history -- Regional disparities -- Rural poor -- Rural poverty : Trends in agricultural output and incomes, agricultural growth and poverty, agricultural wage rates -- Agrarian structure : Two theories of agrarian change, structure of ownership holding, structure of operational holdings, landlessness, rural wage labor/labour, rural unemployment, occupational distribution of rural wage employment -- Prerequisites for sustained gains in output on small farms : Better cultivating practices, scientific multiple cropping, irrigation, access to credit, market, research and extension -- Rural poor and green revolution : Patterns of HYV adoption, yield gains and nutrient use, landless, distribution of gains from the green revolution -- Non crop employment for rural poor : Livestock and dairying, small stock development, poultry, fisheries, forestry -- Rural industrialization and employment : Employment linkage, rural and small scale industrialization, rural public works programs, specialized poverty programs -- Land reform- missed opportunity : Tenancy as an institutional constraint, tenancy reform, ceilings on landholdings and redistribution of land, consolidation of fragmented holdings