Rural People’s Knowledge

Rural people’s knowledge has been developed based on the long experiences. Their knowledge is very helpful in agricultural practices and in conversation of natural resources. Rural people’s knowledge and modern scientific knowledge are complementary in their strengths and weaknesses. In this way, modern scientific and sophisticated knowledge is disseminating to inform and uplift the rural masses. For the rural poorer people, exotic cattle are usually either impossible or unattractive as investments. Rural people’s knowledge has been variously described as people’s science, ethno science, folk ecology and village science. Local knowledge is tempting for its simplicity. Knowledge of the observable environment is also often very detailed. A strength of rural people’s knowledge is the faculties which maintain, extend, and correct it. Such rural knowledge is at the same time vulnerable and adaptable. Rural people’s knowledge can be underpinned and enhanced by a richness of discrimination.