This document provides an overview of rural marketing in India. It defines rural marketing as developing, pricing, promoting, and distributing rural-specific goods and services to satisfy consumer demand in rural areas. Some key points: - Rural markets have consumers located in rural areas with different behaviors than urban consumers. Transactions can be rural-to-urban or urban-to-rural. - Rural marketing focuses more on development than transactions, customer satisfaction, and increasing living standards through a mutually beneficial process. - Rural markets are large and diverse but scattered, with low incomes mainly from agriculture. They face challenges like high distribution costs, seasonal demand, and lack of infrastructure.