Group presentation of Rural sociology course. Done by '16 batch students of sociology discipline, Khulna University

1. Welcome to the Presentation

2. Topic:
Non-farming activities in rural
society

3. Rural Sociology
SOC- 1205
Presented to
Nusrat Jahan
Assistant Professor
Presented by
ID: 161611, 161633, 161643,
161653
1st Year 2nd Term
Group- I

4. Presentation Outline
• Definition
• Types of non farming activities
• Types of non farming activities: Dairy
• Types of non farming activities: Small Scale Manufacturing
• Types of non farming activities: shopkeeper
• Types of non farming activities: Transport
• Non-farming activities in Bangladesh
• Conclusion

5. Non-farming activities are the
activities which are not related to
farming or agricultural activities.
Non farming employment is
defined as any form of
employment other than farm
employment in the type of wages,
self, or unpaid family labor.
Definition

6. Types of non farming
activities
• Dairy
• Small scale manufacturing
• Shopkeepers
• transport

7. Types of non farming activities
Dairy
• Dairy Farming is generally a type of subsistence farming
system in Bangladesh, especially in rural areas.
• the major producer of milk in the rural country. More than 40%
of rural farming households are engaged in milk production
because it is a livestock enterprise in which they can engage
with relative ease to improve their livelihoods.

8. Types of non farming activities
Small Scale Manufacturing
• In villages manufacturing takes place in a very small scale
with simple production methods.
• People are engaged in the production at their own home or in
fields.
• Laborers are rarely hired. Sugarcane is the most common
small scale manufacturing business in village. Some of the
people have machines to crush the sugarcanes.

9. Types of non farming activities
shopkeeper
• Shopkeepers play a big role in villages. All day-to-day ,non-
agricultural products , are provided in villages in shops.
Products from towns and cities like soaps, toothpaste, etc.
that are needed on daily basis are available at local shops.

10. Types of non farming activities
Transport
 Communicating from village to town for purchasing and selling
goods have improved in rural areas.
 Jeep, tractors, bullock carts and bogey's are the transport
facilities. They ferry people and goods from village to town and in
return get paid for it.
 The number of people involved in transport have grown in rural
areas.

11. Non-farming activities in
Bangladesh
• Bangladesh is an extremely scarce country and there is no scope
for increasing total cultivable area.
• Nearly half of the rural households in Bangladesh are “functionally
landless” owning less than 0.2 ha of land that cannot be a
significant source of income.
• Nonfarm activities are found to be most important for the poor, who
are pushed out of agriculture due to limited and poor land
resources.

12. Non-farming activities in
Bangladesh
• In 2000, one third of the rural employment was generated in
business enterprises and service sector activities. The proportion
of workers engaged in these activities increased by nearly 60
percent over the 1987-2000 period.
• In the average annual income of Tk 91,739, 22.77 percent
comes from agriculture sector and 77.23 from the non-agriculture
sector, according to the Rural Credit Survey 2014 in Bangladesh.

13. Non-farming activities in
Bangladesh
• Non-institutional agri-loans, which
account for 11 percent of the total
credit, are distributed by local
moneylenders and friends and so
on.
• The survey also revealed that the
majority of the rural borrowers
were women (58.5 percent). The
annual average expenditure of
the households covered by the
survey was Tk 1.07 lakh, 46
percent of which was spent on
food and 5 percent on repayment
of outstanding debts.

14. Conclusion
• The rural non-farming sector is already of great importance to
rural economies for its productive and employment effects: it
offers services and products upstream and downstream from
agriculture in the off-farm components of the food and fiber
system, which are critical to the dynamism of agriculture;
while the income it provides farm households represents a
substantial and growing share of rural incomes, including
those of the rural poor.

15. Thank You

16. Any Question
or Suggestion