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Palampur - Coggle Diagram

- - - - No idle land
  - - - Cattle feed
    - - Surplus wheat sold
    - - Electricity came early to palampur - transformed irrigation
        
        Persian wheels - past
        
        draw water from wells
        
        Electric-run tubwells - present
        
        more effective, larger areas of land
        
        Government - private tubwells
    - - Palampur farmers grow at least 2 main crops, many grow potato as 3rd
    - - Traditional seeds used till mid-1960s
        
        1300 kg per hectare
      - Green revolution - late 1960s
        
        Higher Yielding Variety (HYV) seeds
        
        Higher yields: HVY seeds, chemical fertilizer & pesticides, irrigation, etc
        
        Farm machinery (tractors, threshers) made plowing and harvesting faster
        
        High yield of wheat
        
        Punjab Haryana Western UP - first
        
        3200 kg per hectare
        
        Yield of wheat grown
  - - - Paid wages, can vary
      - High competition, agree to work for lower wages
- - - - Jeep, rickshaw, tonga, tractor, truck, bullok cart, bogey
- - - - Savings
  - - - Medium/large farmers supply wheat