This becomes particularly evident in so-called integrated rural development projects. These are programmes that tend to influence the entire social and economic setting of the project region. They often concentrate on increasing productivity of agriculture, and by the same time provide inputs to create off-farm employment generation, improve health and social systems, education, environment, women's groups, etc. They try to consider every aspect of the rural life. But they are hardly prepared for the systemic effects of external and internal influences.
Cheap wheat is imported.
Then, production becomes uneconomic for small-scale farmers. Then, farmers sell their land. Then, size of land holdings increase. Then, because of the effects of production of scale, local medium and large-scale farmers produce wheat a lower price. This increases the pressure on small-scale farmers.