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Telangana SCERT\u00a010th Class Social Study Material Pdf Telangana<\/a> 8th Lesson Rampur: A Village Economy Textbook Questions and Answers.<\/p>\n Question 1. Question 2. Question 3. <\/p>\n Question 4. Example: Many farmers of Raropur village have adopted the process of multiple cropping to increase their production from same piece of land. During the rainy season, they grow jowar, bajra. etc. which are used for cattle feeding. Between October and December, they cultivate potatoes. In winter season they grow wheat which is partly kept for family consumption and the surplus for selling.<\/p>\n Question 5. Large farmers have their own savings from farming which they had accumulated year after year. So they don’t stand any need for taking loan from anywhere.<\/p>\n Generally, medium farmers also have their own savings to spend for the improvement of their farms. But even if they need to borrow, the amount would be small. Such farmers can go to bank directly and won’t face any difficulty In getting a loan from the bank which will be at a reasonable Interest too. The Banks feel happy to advance a loan to such farmers as they dont see any risk because of the sound economic conditions of medium or large tanners.<\/p>\n Question 6. He agreed to give her a loan but a hefty rate of interest of 20% for four months plus on a condition of her giving a manual labour to his field. Still, Savita agrees to these terms as she knew getting a loan for a small farmer is quite a difficult task.<\/p>\n Savita\u2019s condition would have been certainly better If she could get a loan from a bank at a low or reasonable rate of interest. in that event she would have also been able to bring up her three children in a better way since she would have more time for her family.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Question 7. Changes in Irrigation: They reported that cultivation had gone through major changes during the last 30 years. Traditional agricultural Practices are steadily being replaced by modem farming practices. Indian agriculture has witnessed mechanization on a Large scale. The use of HYV seeds increased. The farmers have begun to set up their own pumps sets for irrigation. Unlike past, farmers now grow at least two main crops during the year. Non-farm activities are increased.<\/p>\n Changes in Production Method: Question 8. Question 9. Question 10. Question 11. Question 12. Question 13. Page No. 103<\/span><\/p>\n Question 1. b) A seed needs water, sunlight, and the soil to grow. Some plants grow n certain conditions. So. the Grc.tS change various seasons.<\/p>\n c) Most people depending on agriculture belong to labourers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Question 2. 3. The following table shows the land under cultivation In India in units of million hectares. Plot this on the graph provided. What does the graph show? Discuss in class. <\/p>\n Question 4. Question 5. Page No.107<\/span><\/p>\n Question 6. Question 7. Question 8. <\/p>\n b) Would you agree that the distribution of cultivated land is unequal In India? Explain. Page No. 108<\/span><\/p>\n Question 9. Page No. 109<\/span><\/p>\n Question 10. Question 11. Question 12. Answer:<\/p>\n Question 13. Page No. 110<\/span><\/p>\n Question 14. b) Find out the minimum wage and compare It with this. c) Why do you think do men receive a higher wage than women for the same job? Discuss. Page No. 112<\/span><\/p>\n Question 15. Complete the table. b) Compare the production of wheat by the three farmers over the years. <\/p>\n c) What happens to the Farmer 3 in Year 3? Can h. continue production? What will he have to do to continue production? Page No.113& 114<\/span><\/p>\n Read the following paragraph and answer the questions. Question 18. Question 17. Question 18. Question 19. Page No. 114<\/span><\/p>\n Read the following paragraph and answer the questions. In our country. a large section of people are self-employed like farmers, shopkeepers, hawkers, etc. They are owners because they have lo plan and organize and take the risk of producing goods or services. At the same time, they also provide their own labour to manage the process.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Question 20. Question 21. Question 22. Question 23. Question 24. Page No. 115<\/span><\/p>\n Read the following paragraph and answer the questions. Further, he has attached a wooden cart to his buffalo and uses it to transport various Items. Once a week, he goes to the Ganges to bring back clay for the potter. Or sometimes he goes to Jahangirabad with a load of jaggary or other commodities. Every month, he gets some work in the transport services. As a result, Kishore is able to earn more than what he used to some years back.<\/p>\n Question 25. Question 26. Question 27. <\/p>\n Question 28. Telangana SCERT\u00a010th Class Social Study Material Pdf Telangana 8th Lesson Rampur: A Village Economy Textbook Questions and Answers. TS 10th Class Social 8th Lesson Questions and Answers – Rampur: A Village Economy Question 1. 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\nEvery village in India is surveyed once in ten years during the Census and the details are presented in the following format. Fill up the following based on information on Rampur.
\na. Location:
\nb. Total area of the village:
\nc. Land Use (in hectares):
\n
\nAnswer:
\na. Location: Ranur lies in the fertile alluvial plains of the Gangelic basin in the western part of Uttar Pradesh.
\nb. Total area of the village: 226 hectares
\nc. Land Use (lnhectares): –
\n<\/p>\n
\nWhy are the wages for farm labourers in Rampur less than minimum wages?
\nAnswer:
\nFarm labourers n the Rarnpur village come from landless families cultivating small plots of land. The minimum wage fixed by the government for a farm labourer is Rs. 60 per day but they paid only Rs. 35, Rs. 40 a day. This is because of the fact that there is great competition for work among the farm labourers of Rampur. So they themselves agree to work at much lower wages than what was fixed by the government.<\/p>\n
\nTalk to two labourers from your region. Choose either farm labourers or labourers working at construction states. What wages do they get ? Are they paid in cash or kind? Do they get work regularly? Are they In debt?
\nAnswer;
\nI met Smt. Parvathi and Smf. Rani in our region. They both are farm labourers. They get Rs. 120 daily. They are paid in cash. They got continuous work for lO months in a year. Yes, they are in debt.<\/p>\n
\nWhat are the different ways of increasing production on the same piece of land? Use examples to explain.
\nAnswer:
\nThe two most common ways of increasing the production are either by multiple cropping or by adopting modem farming method.<\/p>\n
\nHow do the medium and large farmers obtain capital for farming? How is it different from the small farmers?
\nAnswer:
\nIt is a fact that the small farmers with less than 2 hectares 01 land have to face much more problems than the medium or large farmers. As compared to small farmers, medium and large farmers can quite easily obtain capital for farming. The reasons are several.<\/p>\n
\nOn what tennis did Savita get a loan from Tejpal? Would Savlta’s condition be different if she could get a loan from the bank at a low rate of interest?
\nAnswer:
\nBeing a small farmer Savitha has to face a number of problems if she wants to cultivate wheat on her 1 hectare of land. To purchase seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides for cultivating she has no money. It will be highly difficult to gel a loan from a bank. So. she approached Teipal, a large farmer of her village to getting a loan.<\/p>\n
\nTalk to some elderly persons In your region and write a small report on the changes in Wrigatlon and changes in production methods during the last 30 years.
\nAnswer:
\nI met Sri P. Moliana Rao of KarIrrwagar District and Sri I( Krishna Rao of Nizamabad
\nDistrict to conduct the survey.<\/p>\n
\nSugarcane crushing was earlier done with the he4p of bullocks. but now people prefer
\nto do it by sugarcane crushing machine run on electricity. Human resources are mostly replaced by machines.<\/p>\n
\nWhat are the main non-farm production activities taking place In your region? Write a brief report on any one such activity.
\nAnswer:
\nThere are many forms of non-farm production activities in our region. Some of them are<\/p>\n\n
\nImagine a situation where labour is the scarce factor of production instead of land. Would the story of Rampur be different? How? Discuss in class.
\nAnswer:
\nIf the labour is scarce instead of land, the story of Rampur would be different. The demand for labour increases. Then their wages also increase.<\/p>\n
\nGosaipur and Majauli are two villages in North Bihar. Out of a total of 850 households In the two villages, there are more than 250 men who are employed In rural Punjab and Haryana or in Delhi, Mumbai, Surat, Hyderabad or Nagpur. Such migration is common in most villages across India. Why do people migrate? Can you describe (based on your imagination and previous chapter) the work that the migrants of Gosaipur and Majauli might do at the place of destination?
\nAnswer:
\nSome people of Gosaipur and Majauli have migrated to the rural areas of Punjab, Haryana, Murrtal, and Nagpur. etc. The migrants are employed by the large farmers of these regions aimer as regular workers or as daily wage workers.<\/p>\n
\nLand is also required for production of goods In an urban area. In what ways Is the use of land different from a rural area?
\nAnswer:
\nIn urban areas land is used for constructions, laying roads, bus terminals, and hospitals. educational institutions, parks, theatres, etc. Some of these are not present in rural areas.<\/p>\n
\nRead again the meaning of \u201cland\u201d In the production process. Give three examples, other than agriculture, where this requirement Is most significant in the process of production.
\nAnswer:<\/p>\n\n
\nWater, a natural resource for production, particularly agricultural production, now requires greater capital for its use. What is your opinion on li?
\nAnswer:<\/p>\n\n
TS 10th Class Social 8th Lesson Rampur: A Village Economy Intext Questions<\/h3>\n
\na) What do you know about agriculture?
\nb) How do crops change in various seasons?
\nc) Do most people depending on agriculture belong to land-owning groups or labourers?
\nAnswer:
\na)<\/p>\n\n
\nLooking at an atlas, identify the areas that are well irrigated. Does your region tall under this category?
\nAnswer:<\/p>\n\n
\n
\nAnswer:<\/p>\n\n
\nYou have read about the crops grown in Rampur. Fill the following table based on information on the crops grown in your region.
\n
\nAnswer:
\n<\/p>\n
\nWhat are the reasons for multiple cropping In cultivation?
\nAnswer:<\/p>\n\n
\nIn the map given below, shade the small plots of land.
\n
\nAnswer:
\nSelf Activity.<\/p>\n
\nWhy do so many families of farmers cultivate such small plots of land? k1.rT
\nAnswer:<\/p>\n\n
\nThe distribution of farmers in India and the amount of land they cultivate are given in the following table and pie charts.
\n
\nAnswer:
\n1) The arrows indicate that 87% of the total farmers are cultivating only 48% of the total cultivated land.
\n2) The remaining 13% of the farmers are cultivating the remaining 52% of the land.
\n3) This Indicates that there is no equal distribution of land among farmers.
\n4) I would agree that the distribution of cultivated land\u2018s unequal in India.<\/p>\n
\nAnswer:
\nYes, I agree that the distribution of cultivated land is unequal in India. In Rampur, 240 families cultivate small plots of land less than 2 hectares in size whereas remaining cultivate more than 2 hectares of land. A few of the large farmers have land extending over lOor more hectares. We find the similar situation in India also.<\/p>\n
\nSmall farmer, Big farmer. After reading next section (Land for the Farm) write a caption that would describe their relation with the factors of production.
\n
\nAnswer:
\nSmall farmer should carry the field while the field Carnes big farmers.<\/p>\n
\nWhy are farm labourers like Shivaiah poor? frlrThfl
\nAnswer:
\nShivaiah is a landless farm labourer who works on daily wages. He must regularly look for work. The daily wages for a farm labourer was set up by the government as Rs. 60 per day, but Shlvaiah gets only Rs. 35- Rs. 40. There is a tough competition for work among the labourers. So people agree to work for lower wages. So the farm labourers like Shivaiah are poor. Snail farmers<\/p>\n
\nWhat do the large and medium farmers In Rampur do to get labour for their farms? Compare this with your region.
\nAnswer:
\nThe large and medium farmers offer lower wages to get labour for their farms. In our region most of the villagers are job holders In the nearest town. So there is no such competition. The farm labourers are less in quarter. So they get better wages.<\/p>\n
\nFill in the following table:<\/p>\n\n\n
\n Labour In production process<\/td>\n Give three different examples of production activity for each<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Where owner\/family also provides the labour required<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Where owners hire labourers to do the work<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n\n
\n Labour in production process<\/td>\n Give three different examples of production activity for each<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Where owners\/ family also provides<\/td>\n Cottage industries, Small-scale industries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Where owners hire labourers to do the work<\/td>\n Large scale industries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\nWhat are the ways for providing labour, in the production of goods or services that you observe in your region?
\nAnswer:
\nIn our region, these are the ways of providing labour in the production of goods or services.<\/p>\n\n
\nRead the following table.
\n
\na) Compare the figures for daily wages given above with those prevailing in your region for any of the operations.
\nAnswer:
\nThe daily wages In our report are also same as above. The minimum wage for men Is Rs. 200\/- and for women is Rs. 150\/-. In the ven data, there are many variations.<\/p>\n
\nAnswer:
\nMinimum daily wage = Rs. 125 per day for both male and female. We can say that the labour in our area are getting favorable figures.<\/p>\n
\nAnswer:
\nI think this practice is mostly in the agricultural sector and industrial sectors. In these two sectors, the quantity of work depends on the physical strength of the labourer. Men are physically strong than women. So they are paid more wages.<\/p>\n
\na) Surplus and Capital for Production.
\nConsider three farmers. Each has grown wheat on his field though the production is different as in Column 2. To analyse the situation faced by different farmers, we need to assume that some conditions ai. the same for all. To keep things simple, let us suppose the following conditions:
\n1) The consumption of wheat by each farmer tan\u2019Wly is the same (Cokmin 3).
\n2) The whole of surplus wheat this year is used as seeds for working capital for the next year\u2019s production by all the farmers. They also have land to do so.
\n3) Also spouse, production output is twice the working capital used in production in all the farms. There is no sudden loss n production.<\/p>\n
\nFarmer 1 :
\n
\nAnswer:
\n <\/p>\n
\nAnswer:
\nThe production of Farmer- 1 goes on Increasing.
\nThe production of Farrner – 2 remains the same.
\nThe production of Farmer-3 goes on decreasing year by year.<\/p>\n
\nAnswer:
\nFarmer 3 has no savings in the second year. So he has no capital to an production. He will have to approach the moneylender for loan to start production.<\/p>\n
\nMishrdal has purchased a mechanical sugarcane crushing machine runs on electricity and prepares jaggery. Earlier, sugarcane was crushed by using bullocks, but these days people prefer to do It with machines. Apart from using the sugarcane that Mishrilal has cultivated, he also buys sugarcane from other farmers and processes it into jaggery. The jaggery Is then sold to traders at Jahangirabad. In the process, Mishrilal makes a
\nsmall profit.<\/p>\n
\nWhat physical capital did Mlshrllal need to set up this process?
\nAnswer:<\/p>\n\n
\nWho provides the labour in this case?
\nAnswer:<\/p>\n\n
\nWhy Is MishrIlal unable to Increase his profit? Think of the situation when he could face a loss.
\nAnswer:<\/p>\n\n
\nWhy does MishrlIal sell jaggery to traders In Jahanglrabad and not In his village?
\nAnswer:<\/p>\n\n
\nA few fanihes whose houses are dose to the bus stand have used a part of the space to open small shops. They sell eatables like tea, and samosa. kachori, namkeen, sweats. Coffees, cold drink. etc. The women and the children In the family share the work together.<\/p>\n
\nOn whose land is the shop located?
\nAnswer:
\nThe shop is located on the house of the family whose house is located near the bus stand.<\/p>\n
\nWho supplies labour to these small shops selling eatables?
\nAnswer:
\nThey are self-dependents, They use their family members.<\/p>\n
\nGuess what working capital would such shops require.
\nAnswer:
\nFixed capital.<\/p>\n
\nList the physical capital items.
\nAnswer:
\nAlrmrahs with mirrors, shop, desk, weights and measures like balance, stones, boxes for
\npacking, etc.<\/p>\n
\nFrom a hawker in your area, find out about his daily sales. How will you find out If there Is some savings? Discuss with your teacher.
\nAnswer:
\nI interviewed a hawker Mrs. Laxzm in our area. She sells sweets. She gets a profit at\u2019 Rs. 200 to Rs. 300 daily. She saves through \u2018Dwacra\u2019 in the nearest bank.<\/p>\n
\nKishore is a Farm Labourer. Like other labourers, Kishore found it difficult to meet his family\u2019s needs from the wages that he received. A few years back, Kishore took a loan from the bank. This was under a government program which was giving cheap loans to poor landless households. Kishore bought a buffalo with this money. He now sells the buffalo milk.<\/p>\n
\nWhat Is Kishore\u2019s fixed capital?
\nAnswer:
\nKishore\u2019s fixed capital includes a buffalo, and a wooden cart.<\/p>\n
\nWhat do you think would be his working capital?
\nAnswer:
\nKishore has a loan from the bank which could be his working capital.<\/p>\n
\nIn how many production activities is Kishome involved?
\nAnswer:
\nKishore is involved in the following activities<\/p>\n\n
\nWould you say that Kishore has been benefited from better roads In Rampur?
\nAnswer:<\/p>\n\n