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OBJECTIVE ASSIGNMENT

Sl. Questions Page Marks
No. No.
1 To arrange capital for farming ........... farmers borrow from large 8 1
farmers, village moneylenders or traders of agricultural inputs.
2 How do farm labourers get wages in Palampur? 8 1
3 Why are farm labourers like Dala and Ramkali poor?(NCERT intext 9 1
Lets discuss)
4 The distribution of farmers in India and the amount of land they 7 3
cultivate is given in the following Graph 1.1.
Graph 1.1: Distribution of Cultivated Area and Farmers

Source: Pocket Book of Agriculture Statistics 2017 and State of Indian Agriculture
2017, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare (As per
Agriculture Census, 2010–11).

Would you agree that the distribution of cultivated land is unequal in
Palampur? Do you find a similar situation for India? Explain.(NCERT
intext Lets discuss)

5 Why are the wages for farm labourers in Palampur less than minimum 9 3
wages?
Or
Why are the wages of farm labourers in Palampur less than the
minimum wages? (NCERT Qs No. 6)
6 What problems do farm labourers face in terms of unemployment? 7&8 3
Explain any three problems.

7 How do the medium and large farmers make their own savings and 9&10 3
how do they utilize it? Explain. (NCERT Qs. No. 11)

8 Gosaipur and Majauli are two villages in North Bihar. Out of a total of 9 3
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) the work that the migrants of Gosaipur and Majauli
might do at the place of destination?(NCERT intext Lets discuss)