ABSTRACT

Rural industrialization will continue to be important as an adjunct to agricultural production and as an employment-generating device. The rural sector is a very different world and has an entirely different set of problems than that of the urban sector. There is no question that there are certain linkages between the two sectors. The process of mobilizing manpower, materials, and tools in rural villages and turning them into factories eventually creates linkages. Something that was a blacksmith shop may eventually become an automotive parts manufacturer. Turning to the subject of technology, there is a difference between practitioners— people who have been in factories and know what technology is— and people who talk about this sort of thing from the top down. To understand the question of technology acquisition and absorption, one must understand what it takes in the way of mobilizing people, materials, and tools to turn out a finished product like a diesel engine.