Opening Address

Under-development is usually characterized by low total productivity in the agricultural sector, including undeveloped methods of agronomy within domestic agriculture, extensive unemployment or under-employment of labour in rural areas, lack of private investment and management for the expansion of the processing and manufacturing industries, and inadequate transport.

With a view to rapidly developing their economies, governments of developing countries usually set out a wide spectrum of broad objectives which include an equitable income distribution through the growth of per capita income, the development of a national industrial structure which is capable of earning foreign exchange and supplying domestic markets, and the establishment and maintenance of a high level of employment. Essential to the realization of these objectives are the expansion and improvement of the agricultural sector of the economy, the growth of the'industrial sector and the development of rur^J. and urban markets, as well as a skilled labour supply, and the development of an adequate and efficient infrastructural facility for transporting goods and people between the agricultural, industrial, rural and other sectors.