Members of community farmer groups work in their fields carefully
Rural development is rural-based development with the emphasis on local wisdom of rural areas covering the demographic structure of society, socio-cultural characteristics, physical / geographical characteristics, patterns of agricultural business activities, rural-urban economic patterns, village institutional sectors, and residential area characteristics.
The phenomenon of development gap between regions in a country, covering the already developed regions and the developing regions trigger social disparities between regions. One factor occurs the gap between the village and the city because the previous economic development tends to bias the city (urban bias). As a result of the enactment of an urban biased development model, the agricultural sector identical to rural economies is declining. Compared to the growth of the industrial and service sectors, which are identical to the urban economy, the agricultural sector is becoming increasingly underdeveloped. To overcome this, each country tries to intervene to reduce the level of disparities between regions by doing rural development.
Factors of poverty that occur in rural communities tend to be more structural than cultural. In this case, rural communities are identified with behaviors and attitudes that are considered to be old-fashioned and traditionally confronted with attitudes and behaviors of advanced and modern cities. The occurrence of social backwardness of rural communities in development attributed to the difficulty of the village community accepting the culture of modernization, it is difficult to accept new technology, lazy, and not strongly motivated, to be quite satisfied with the fulfillment of the most basic basic needs, and the shared culture of poverty.
Rural-based development is enforced to strengthen the foundations of state reconstruction, accelerate poverty alleviation and the reduction of regional development gaps, as a solution to social change, the village as a basis for change. In its realization, rural development allows the sources of economic growth to be driven into the countryside so that the village becomes an attractive place to live and earn a living. Village infrastructure, such as irrigation, transportation facilities and infrastructure, electricity, telephones, educational facilities, health and other necessary means, should be provided to enable villages to develop and develop.
Rural based development priority scale, including:
(1) local economic development;
(2) community empowerment;
(3) development of infrastructure and facilities; and
(4) institutional development.
Furthermore, the intervention model of the rural development process rests on the view that rural urbanization based on urban and rural development as economic and regional unity and the development of modern agricultural activities through
mechanization and industrialization of agriculture and the adoption of the same minimum service standard between villages and cities. In the intervention of rural development used analysis of village anatomy so as not to be counterproductive in realizing rural development. The anatomy includes the demographic structure of society, socio-cultural characteristics, physical / geographic characteristics, the pattern of agricultural business activities, the pattern of rural-urban economic linkage, the institutional sector of the village, and the characteristics of residential areas so that rural development is based on local wisdom.
