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Socio-Economic Development of Agricultural Labors in India and Europe

Socio-Economic Development of Agricultural Labors

Introduction
The European Commission’s rural development policy is one of the two pillars of the Common
Agricultural Policy (CAP). It helps meeting the challenges faced by rural areas and contributes to their
sustainable development. Support is provided for rural development programmes defined at national or in
some cases regional level, which for a certain number of years (now: 2007-2013) set out the measures to
be undertaken and the funding allocated to each of these measures. In its early days, rural development
policy was essentially sectoral (dealing mainly with agricultural structures), with limited territorial
aspects. Agenda 2000 established rural development policy as the second pillar of the CAP and brought
rural development under a single regulation to apply across the whole of the European Union for the
period 2000-2006. In addition to agricultural restructuring, it now also addressed environmental concerns
and the wider needs of rural areas.