Provides an analysis of rural road maintenance in the Asian region.

Transporatation plays a key role for the socio-economic development of a country. The pace of economic growth is largely influenced by the efficiency of transportation system as most economic activities are possible only if transport is available to make them so. In agriculture, transportation ebing an integral part of the production and marketing chain is an indispensable input in the pre-harvest and post-harvest operations. The complex functions of this chain start from carrying various inputs like seeds, farm equipments, labourers, fertilizers, pesticides etc., from the sources of supply to farm yeards, assembling the final produce at the central locations of the farm or at the other appropriate nearer places for its further processing, moving the goods to local market or local store within the same village or to the wholesale agricultural assembling market or local store within the same village or the wholesale agricultural assembling market located at another village/town and from there to the godowns and finally to the ultimate consumption places.