In a largely rural region, falling birth rates and empty desks have already led to some reorganisation.
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In appreciation, a succession of Congress governments transformed the town from a rural backwater to a model region with industry and modern farms.
Caviar produced in the Sologne, a rural, pollution-free region of central France, has found fans among French chefs.
He is known to be a big fan of Romania's Transylvania region and its rural traditions.
The climate is cooler, the names sound German, the architectural aesthetics call to mind the Mosel region rather than rural France, and the cuisine enjoys a distinct Germanic influence.
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"Now mobile phone ownership is perhaps 30% of households and cell phone coverage is widespread, " said Sachs, director of the United Nations Millennium Villages Project, which focuses on improving 14 rural villages across 10 African countries as a model for wider prosperity in the region.
Each variety of lace has long been created by rural women as a source of additional income and has left a permanent mark on the culture of its region.
No doubt he would have pined less during the late 20th Century, when many parts of the region became something of a hardscrabble industrial centre -- but as local manufacturing faded in the 1970s, rural charm re-emerged.
The government says the mining is illegal, but in this rural Muslim region of north-western Nigeria it has been going on for generations - and it was a discovery of greater deposits that has led to the recent boom in digging for gold.
Recent conflicts and rural to urban migration that reduced the population of the region and changes in ways of life have caused a sharp decrease in the number of performers, resulting in the loss of many archaic styles and genres of solo singing.
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