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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
                                                 SESSION 2020-21
                                                      CLASS-IX
                         ECONOMICS- Ch-1- STORY OF VILLAGE PALAMPUR
                                                     MIND MAP
                                                   SUB-TOPIC- 4


                                     FARMING IN PALAMPUR




                 Who will provide the labour?                     The capital needed in farming.



                         BIG FARMERS                          • BIG FARMERS-
                                                              - They have large land holdings
                         Hire farm labourers to work          - They get more production from
                         on their fields                        their land and by selling it in
                                                                the market they are able to get
                                                                a high income.
                                                              - They consume a part of the
                          MEDIUM FARMERS                        income; a part of the total
                          Hire farm labourers to work           income is saved and the
                          on their fields                       remaining is lent to the people
                                                                who are in need.


                                                              • Medium FARMERS-
                           SMALL/MARGINAL                     - They hire farm labourers to
                           FARMERS                             work on their fields.
                           They along with their
                                                              - Even they are able to get more
                           families cultivate their own        income and lend loans to the
                           land.                               small farmers and land less
                                                               labourers.

                                                              • SMALL FARMERS AND
                           FARM LABOURERS                       LANDLESS LABOURERS-
                           They come either from              - They have small or no land
                           landless families or                 holdings
                           families cultivating very          - They are unable to fulfil their
                           small plots of land. They
                           do not have right over               needs and depend for money
                                                                on the big farmers, medium
                           crops grown on the land.             farmers, money lenders and the
                                                                traders who supply various
                                                                inputs for cultivation.
                                                              - The rate of interest on such
                                                                loans are very high and they
                                                                are put to great distress to
                                                                repay the loan.
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