Question

Write whether the given statements are true or false:
1.The trader keeps an account of the yarn given and pays them money for weaving this into
cloth.
2. Most often, the big farmers need to borrow money to meet their expenses.
3. The weavers and their families spend long hours working on the looms.
4. Cultivation of cotton requires high levels of inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides.
5 The cloth merchants sell their clothes from Erode cloth market to garment manufacturers.

Answer 1

Answer:

1. True
2. False
3. True
4. True

Answer 2

The answers to the following statements are as follows-:

1. True

• A trader has to keep an account regarding the amount of yarn given and also pay the weavers the money for weaving it into cloth. It is essential to keep a note of everything as the process of making yarn and weaving it into cloth is tedious.

2. False

• It is not the big farmers but the small farmers to need and require money for being able to meet their expenses. They generally do not earn enough to sustain a livelihood or meet their two ends this is the reason they are required to borrow money at high-interest rates from moneylenders and are a victim of poverty.

3. True

• The weavers and their families do the work on the looms and it is a tedious and long process. The whole family does the same job and work and though their productivity is higher they still do not receive the needful pay because they are exploited by the middlemen who take away a large share.

4. True

• The cultivation of the crop cotton requires a high amount of fertilizers and pesticides. Though these inputs cause soil erosion and work in loosening the soil fertility it is required in cotton cultivation. The ones who grow cotton incur a great amount of spending on it.

5. True

• The cotton workers sell their cloth to erode markets wherein they make a provision of yarn and instruct them about the cloth which is to be made and once made they further sell it to garment manufacturers.

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