Let us take three farmers. Each has grown wheat on his field though the production is different (see Column 2 ). The consumption of wheat by each farmer family is the same (Column 3 ). The whole surplus wheat this year is used as capital for next year’s production. Suppose, production is twice the capital used in production. Complete the tables. Farmer 1 : Production Consumption Surplus = Production – Consumption Capital for the next year Year 1 100 40 60 60 Year 2 120 40 Year 3 40 Farmer 2 : Production Consumption Surplus Capital for the next year Year 1 80 40 Year 2 40 Year 3 40 Farmer 3: Production Consumption Surplus Capital for the next year Year 1 60 40 Year 2 40 Year 3 40 Compare the production of wheat by the three farmers over the years. What happens to Farmer 3 in Year 3 ? Can he continue production? What will he have to do to continue production?

Farmer 1 Production Consumption Surplus = Production – Consumption Capital for the next year Year 1 100 40 60 60 Year 2 120 40 80 80 Year 3 140 40 100 100 Farmer 2 Production Consumption Surplus Capital for the next year Year 1 80 40 40 40 Year 2 80 40 40 40 Year 3 80 40 40 40 Farmer 3 Production Consumption Surplus Capital for the next year Year 1 60 40 20 20 Year 2 40 40 0 0 Year 3 20 40 0 0 Comparative study Farmer 1 Farmer 2 Farmer 3 Year 1 100 80 60 Year 2 120 80 40 Year 3 140 80 20 The production of Farmer 1 increased from 100 to 140 . The production of Farmer 2 remains constant at 80 in all the three years. The production of Farmer 3 declined from 60 to 20 . He cannot continue production as he himself has to borrow wheat from the market to fulfill his own needs. He cannot generate capital for the next production, so to continue farming he has borrowed money from the informal sources of credit.

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Modern farming methods require the farmer to start with more cash than before. Why?

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In the Picture $1.5$ , can you shade the land cultivated by the small farmers?

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Why do so many families of farmers cultivate such small plots of land?

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The distribution of farmers in India and the amount of land they cultivate is given in the following Graph $1.1 .$

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Would you agree that the distribution of cultivated land is unequal in Palampur? Do you find a similar situation in India? Explain.

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Identify the work being done on the field in Pictures $1.6$ and arrange them in a proper sequence.

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Why are farm labourers like Dala and Ramkali poor?

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Gosaipur and Majauli are two villages in North Bihar. Out of a total of

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households in the two villages, there are more than

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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) the work that the migrants of Gosaipur and Majauli might do at the place of destination?

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Let us take three farmers. Each has grown wheat on his field though the production is different (see Column $2$ ). The consumption of wheat by each farmer family is the same (Column $3$ ). The whole surplus wheat this year is used as capital for next year’s production. Suppose, production is twice the capital used in production. Complete the tables.

Farmer $1$ :

	Production	Consumption	Surplus = Production – Consumption	Capital for the next year
Year $1$	$100$	$40$	$60$	$60$
Year $2$	$120$	$40$
Year $3$		$40$

Farmer $2$ :

	Production	Consumption	Surplus	Capital for the next year
Year $1$	$80$	$40$
Year $2$		$40$
Year $3$		$40$

Farmer 3:

	Production	Consumption	Surplus	Capital for the next year
Year $1$	$60$	$40$
Year $2$		$40$
Year $3$		$40$

Compare the production of wheat by the three farmers over the years.

What happens to Farmer $3$ in Year $3$ ? Can he continue production? What will he have to do to continue production?

Modern farming methods require the farmer to start with more cash than before. Why?

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