What are the different ways of increasing production on the same piece of land? Use examples to explain.NCERT Class 9th Economics Social Studies Ch 1 The Story of Village Palampur
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Different ways of increasing production on the same piece of land
(i) Multiple cropping: It is the most common way of increasing production on a given piece of land. Under it, more than one crop is grown on the same piece of land during the year. Indian farmers should grow at least two main crops in a year. Some farmers have been growing a third crop also over the past twenty years
(ii) Green Revolution: It was brought in India in the late 1960s, the use of HYV (High Yielding Variety) seeds for increase in production of rice and wheat. It promised to produce much greater amount of grains on a single plant.
(iii) Use of modern technology: By the use of well-developed ability to cultivate their land with greater efficiency.
(iv) Use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides: Farmers use pump sets for irrigation, threshers for threshing, harvesters for harvesting, tractors for ploughing etc. Use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides improves fertility of soil and reduces pest respectively for the particular period of production. This improves the quantity of production.
To grow more than one crop on a piece of land during the year is known as multiple cropping. It is the most common way of increasing production on a given piece of land. All farmers in Palampur grow at least two main crops; many are growing potato as the third crop in the past fifteen to twenty years.
Multiple cropping and use of modern farming methods are two different ways of increasing production on the same piece of land. e.g., (i) Multiple Cropping When more than one crop is grown on a piece of land during the year it is known as multiple cropping. (a) It is the most common way to increase production on a given piece of land. (b) All farmers in Palampur grow at least two main crops; many are growing potato as the third crop in the past fifteen to twenty years. (ii) Use of Modern Farming Methods Modern farming methods also help to increase the yield per hectare. (a) Farmers of Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh were the first to try modern farming methods in India. (b) The farmers in these regions set up tube wells for irrigation and made use of HYV seeds, chemical fertilizers and pesticides in farming. (c) Some also used farm machinery like tractors and threshers, which made plugging and harvesting faster. They were rewarded with high yields of wheat, increasing from 1300 kg per hectare to 3200 kg per hectare with HYV seeds.
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