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◼ The main source of irrigation is a tube well near the field.
◼ Family members of the farmer help him in carrying out farming activities.
◼ Some farmers also rear livestock like buffaloes and hens and sell milk and eggs
produced by these animals at the nearest available cooperative stores.
◼ A cooperative society is a business owned and controlled equally by the people who
use its services or who work at it. The cooperative society guides these member
farmers in taking care of their livestock.
◼ The agricultural co-operative society, along with banks, serves in lending funds to
the farmers to buy HYV seeds and farming implements.
◼ The farmers in India have to sell the produce themselves and since there is a
shortage of storage facilities they sometimes have to sell their produce at low price.

A Farm in the USA

1. Farmers in developed countries like the USA, Canada and Australia practice commercial
agriculture on large farms.
2. The farms are big, ranging from 250 to 300 hectares in size with their house on the farm.
3. Crops are grown at commercial level and include wheat, maize or corn, soybean, cotton
and sugar beet.
4. A typical farmer in the USA
➢ operates on a much larger scale and is more like a businessman

➢ regularly analyses the type of soil and the water resources available and decides
which crop to grow
➢ takes adequate steps to protect their crop from pests by taking help of the fertilizer
plant that enables him to choose the best pesticides

➢ has a computer linked to a satellite providing a complete picture of the field and as a
result, there is no need for supplementing farming income
➢ relies heavily on machines, like tractor, seed driller, leveller, combined harvester and
thresher
➢ has the advantage of automated grain storage facilities and dispatch facilities to
marketing agencies and so can wait for a good price for their farm produce

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