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The Story Of Village Palampur - Coggle Diagram
The Story Of Village Palampur
Introduction
Raiganj, a big village
Shahpur, nearest small town
There are 450 families
80 upper caste families
One third consist of SCs
Palampur is a hypothetical village
Two primary schools and one high school
There is a primary health centre and one private dispensary
Factors of production
Labour
Can be Skilled
Can be Unskilled
Land
There are four requirements for production of goods and services :
Physical capital
Fixed capital
Things that can be used for production for many years
Tools, machines, buildings
Working capital
Things that are used up in production(raw material)
Money in hand
Human capital
Farming in palampur
Is there a way one can grow
more from the same land?
Crop rotation
Multiple cropping
Will the land sustain?
Scientific reports indicate that the modern farming
methods have overused the natural resources base...
How land is distributed between
the farmers of palampur?
.One third of 450 families are landless
.150 families, most of them dalits, have no land for cultivation
.240 families cultivate small plots of land less than 2 hectares
.60 families of medium and large farmers cultivate more than 2 hectares...
Who will provide the labour?
The minimum wages for a farm labourer set by the government is rs 300 per day ( March 2017), but there is heavy competition of work among the farm labourers in palampur, so people agree to work for lower wages...
The capital needed in farming
Most of the farmers borrow money to arrange for the the capital from village moneylenders or traders and have to pay very high rate of interest...
Sale of surplus farm products
The part of the harvest which is kept for selling is called as surplus farm product and when it is taken to the market for selling it is called as Sale of surplus farm products...
Methods
Traditional
Persian wheel to irrigate, animals to
plough, traditional seeds were sown
Modern
After Green revolution modern farming methods were used like HYV seeds and modern tools and machines
Land is fixed
Since 1960 in palampur, there has been no
expansion in land area under cultivation...
Non farming activities in palampur
Dairy- the other common activity
Milk is sold in raiganj and transported
to far away towns and cities
An example of small-scale
manufacturing in palampur
Manufacturing in palampur involves very simple
production methods and are done on a small scale.
The shopkeepers of palampur
People are involved in selling various types of
items in general stores and also the eatables.
Transport: a fast developing sector
The number of people involved in transport has
grown over the last several years in palampur.