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RURAL MARKETING
Definition
• The word ‘RURAL’ is so much associated with agriculture and
farmers.
• 75 percent of the male working population is engaged in
agriculture
• Towns upto 15,000 population are considered rural.
Rural Vs. Urban
Rural
• Main profession is
agriculture
• social mobility less
• less numerous contacts
per man
Urban
• Manufacturing, trade,
commerce, professions
• social mobility increases
with urbanity.
• Greater complexity,
superficiality &
standardized formality in
relations.
Rural Customer characteristics
• Diverse and varied profiles of customer
• Customer is illiterate which leads to inability to identify the
brands
• Customer ends up buying duplicate product due to lack of
knowledge
• Poverty leads to buy the products in small quantity
Various factors which have made rural markets
viable
• Large population
• Growth in consumption
• Rural marketing is not expensive
• Market growth rate higher than urban
• Remoteness is no longer a problem
Factors affecting rural customer
• Self dependent and produce most of consumption needs
locally.
• Lack of infrastructure
Changes in Rural India
• Effect of government programmes
• Civil society interventions
• Migration and its side effects
Success stories
• Nirma
. Referred as pila powder
. Targeted people from bottom of pyramid
. It has not changed the packaing and
product composition.
Domain of Rural Marketing

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Rural marketing

  • 2. Definition • The word ‘RURAL’ is so much associated with agriculture and farmers. • 75 percent of the male working population is engaged in agriculture • Towns upto 15,000 population are considered rural.
  • 3. Rural Vs. Urban Rural • Main profession is agriculture • social mobility less • less numerous contacts per man Urban • Manufacturing, trade, commerce, professions • social mobility increases with urbanity. • Greater complexity, superficiality & standardized formality in relations.
  • 4. Rural Customer characteristics • Diverse and varied profiles of customer • Customer is illiterate which leads to inability to identify the brands • Customer ends up buying duplicate product due to lack of knowledge • Poverty leads to buy the products in small quantity
  • 5. Various factors which have made rural markets viable • Large population • Growth in consumption • Rural marketing is not expensive • Market growth rate higher than urban • Remoteness is no longer a problem
  • 6. Factors affecting rural customer • Self dependent and produce most of consumption needs locally. • Lack of infrastructure
  • 7. Changes in Rural India • Effect of government programmes • Civil society interventions • Migration and its side effects
  • 8. Success stories • Nirma . Referred as pila powder . Targeted people from bottom of pyramid . It has not changed the packaing and product composition.
  • 9. Domain of Rural Marketing