Presented By

Anupal Goswami
Smriti Rekha Gayan
M.Com Student, Dibrugarh University
 A rural livelihood is the capabilities, assets and
activities that rural people require for a means of
living.

 The concept of sustainable rural livelihood

emerged in order to eliminate the problem of rural
poverty.

 The word sustainable has been used to provide

development in rural livelihood to benefit the
present generation without harming nature and
preserving it for the future generation.
 To understand the present scenario of rural livelihood in
North East India.

 To study the available technology and their impact on the

livelihood of the rural population.

METHODOLOGY

The study is based on secondary information taken from

different research papers, articles and websites.
 Water Resource Development : It involves research,
development and extension activities in the areas of
water resources, hydropower and irrigation
management.

 Computer kiosk and Mobile Phones : Computers and

mobile phones are a gateway to information and
electronic services which creates connectivity
worldwide through web providers.

 Cold storage : A solar power operated cold storage

facility for storing perishable agricultural produce
can be introduced in the rural areas.
 Household technology : Efficient smoke-less burners,
solar-cookers, less power consuming LED bulbs are
introduced in the villages.

 Vermi-composting : The rural people can take up the

production of biofertilisers including Vermi-
composting on a commercial scale.

 Biotechnology : Developments relating to bio-

fertilizers, aquacultures, tissue culture techniques,
embryo transfer technology to upgrade cattle,
buffaloes, etc.
 Information Technology and Space Technology : Use of IT in
agriculture, irrigation, health, employment and transportation.
There are also a wide range of use of remote sensing
technology in areas of disaster prone areas, minor irrigation,
wasteland identification, etc.

 Livestock Development : Timely advice on feeding, fodder

production, health care, use of mineral mixture, etc. would
help the farmers to increase their livestock productivity.

 Technologies for Tree-based Farming : Horticulture, timber

plantations, sericulture, fruit nurseries, food processing,
mushroom cultivation, etc. can be taken up under tree-based
farming.
 In North East India, agriculture is the major source of
rural livelihood but most of the illiterate farmers have not
been successful in cultivating their land economically. To
reduce this kind of problems, that has greater impact on
the livelihood of the rural people, government should
take initiative to educate the rural people.
 Instead of transferring materials to urban, paying
transaction cost, villagers can go for small industries to
generate income, with the help of schemes and
technologies provided by the government.
 Technology and innovation in the rural areas of North
East India are mostly based on the agricultural sector.
 There are various technologies as discussed above but due to
lack of awareness about the technologies and also about less
knowledge and skills the rural population is still lagging
behind.
 There should be improvement and standardization of
production techniques.
 The rural farmers of North East India are deprived of the facility
of cold storage due to which they do not get adequate price for
their products. So, the government must take initiative to
provide the facility in order to enhance the livelihood of the
rural farmers.
 Entrepreneurship Development Programmes are required to
motivate the rural people for self employment by availing
financial assistance from the various schemes provided by the
government.
 Sustainable livelihood in the context of rural population
of North East India influenced by modern technologies is
unpredictable without proper information and capabilities
of the people along with opportunities. There requires
some practical implications for the provision of facilitating
adequate infrastructure, services including education for
livelihood-linked capability and technology, awareness
regarding health and hygiene, better and broad choices for
agriculture, transport, communications and information
services and also a flexible credit facility to the rural
people. Until and unless these are not taken care of
sustainability in the rural livelihood cannot be achieved.
It can be concluded that application of appropriate
technologies in rural North East India can go a long way to
enhance the livelihood of the mass.