Rurales and Resistive Economy

Rural development as a multi-sectoral concept has different economic, social and cultural dimensions. Rural development strategies are closely related to macroeconomic policies. "The Supreme Leader first mentioned the term" Resistance Economy in September 2010 in a meeting with entrepreneurs. Resistance economy is a concept that is proposed after strengthening, de-crisis and repairing existing worn out and inefficient economic structures and institutions. While the share of the rural population has reached less than 25% of the country's population, more than 80% of the added value of the rurales has come from production. In other words, villages are still a productive part of Iran's economy. The presence of mines and some industrial units has caused the share of agriculture in rural added value to reach 30%. Meanwhile, 88% of the added value of the agricultural sector is the added value of the rural agricultural sector. In other words, villages continue to play an important role as centers of agricultural production. Therefore, any disturbance in the role of rurales as a center of production seriously harms the economic growth of the agricultural sector and affects the rural economy as well.