the note of story of village palampur
class 9 ch 1
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CBSE Class 9 Economics Chapter 1 – The Story of Village Palampur discusses topics related to the organisation of production, labour work, capital, crops production, transport, etc
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Introduction
• Palampur is a small village, well-connected with neighbouring villages and towns like,
Raiganj.
• Bullock carts, tongas, bogeys, motorcycles, jeeps, tractors and trucks types of visible
transport facilities are available on the road of Palampur.
• This village has two primary and one high school and also has a primary health centre
run by the government and one private dispensary.
• About 450 different caste families are living here.
→ Out of them, 80 upper caste families have land majority in this village. One third of
total population is covered by schedule caste.
• Most of the houses have electric connections.
→ Small manufacturings, transport, shop-keeping and farming are the production
activities of the village Palampur.
Organization of Production
• The goal of the organization is to produce goods and services.
→ Land, labour and capital are required for production. Natural resources fulfilled the
requirements of land and water.
→ For labour intensive industry, labour is required and for financial aid, capital is
required.
• Physical capitals are also required for production.
→ Working Capital includes Raw materials and money in hand and Fixed Capital
includes tools, machines, and buildings.
• Human Capital means that labour is also required for the selling purpose.
Farming in Palampur
Farming in Palampur is based on following factor:
(i) Land is fixed
(ii) Change in the method of cultivation
(iii) Multiple cropping
(iv) Modern Farming
(v) Sustainability of land
(vi) Distribution of land
(vii) Labour
(viii) Capital
(ix) Selling of farms products
• Land is fixed
→ About 75 per cent population are depended on farming in Palampur. Land area under
cultivation is fixed. There has been no expansion in land area under cultivation since
1960.
• Change in method of cultivation
→ Multiple cropping and Modern farming are the method of cultivation used in Palampur
to increase the production from land.
• Multiple cropping
→ Method of multiple cropping is used in Palampur. Cultivation of different types of
crops in the same piece of land at same or different time is known as Multiple cropping.
For example, jowar and bajra grow during rainy season, potato is produced between
October and December, and wheat is produced during winter season.
• Modern farming
→ In this type of farming, high yielding varieties seeds are used. As a result same piece
of land produce larger quantities of food grains.
→ In India Farmers of Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh were the first to try
out the modern farming method.
→ Introduction of the Green Revolution facilitated the cultivation of wheat and rice using High Yielding Variety of seeds (HYVs) instead of the traditional seeds. The HYVs are
capable of producing more amount of grain on one plant.
• Sustainability of land
→ According to a scientific report, in modern farming natural resource are overused.
→ Groundwater, rivers and lakes are polluted by the way of using of chemical fertilizers.
→ Chemical fertilizers also kill bacteria and other micro-organisms in the soil which are
essential for the growth of plants.
• Distribution of land
→ About one third of the 450 families are landless in Palampur.
→ 240 families cultivate small plots of land less. For example; 2 hectares in size and
remaining 60 families cultivate more than 2 hectares of land.
→ A few of the large farmers cultivate 10 hectares or more than 10 hectares of land.
• Labour
→ Some farmers are worked on their own land and some worked on another land for
which they receive wage.
→ Wages can be in cash or in kind. Wages vary from region to region, crop to crop and
one farm activity to another.
• Capital
→ Huge capital is required in the method of modern farming.
→ Small farmers have lack of capital. They borrow money from large farmers and
moneylenders at higher rate of interest.
→ There are three type of capital which are