Class 9 Eco Ch1 Imp questions

         VILLAGE OF PALAMPUR

Q1) Which village was connected to Palampur? 

Ans)Raiganj was a big village connected to Palampur. 

Q2) What are the other activities practised in Palampur?

Ans) Small scale manufacturing, shop keeping and dairy farming, transport are the other activities practised in Palampur. 

Q3)Which capital can be considered as the best: land,  labour ,physical or human capital and why? 

Ans) Human capitalism considered as the best because it is the stock of productive knowledge and skills emboided in human being. The other capitals are useless without human capital because humans can only make productive use of the capitals. 

Q4) How was multiple cropping practiced in Palampur? 

Ans) More than one crop grown on a same piece of land during the year is called multiple cropping. People in Palampur are able to grow 3 different crops because they have electricity and we'll developed irrigation system. Many farmers grew potato as third crop in their field. 

Q5) Is there a way one can grow more from the same land?

Ans) Yes, can can grow more from the same land by growing different types of cropped according to seasons. 

Q6)  What is green revolution? How it was practised ?

Ans) Introduced cultivation of wheat and rice using high yielding varities (HYVs) of seeds. 

Methods-

1) The seeds produce much greater amounts of grain on a single plant. 

2) It needs plenty of water and much irrigation. 

3) Chemical fertilizers and pesticides are used. 

4)Farmers of Punjab, Haryana and Western UP were first to try out the modern farming method in India. 

Q7) Give some disadvantages of green revolution. 

Ans) 1) It decreases the fertility of soil using chemicals and fertilizerd.

2) Use of tube wells reduced the water table. 

3)It makes the soil unfit for cultivation. 

4) It was not possible for all farmers to do. 

Q8) How was labours provided for farming? Give some information about farm labourers.

Ans) Small farmers along  with their families cultivate their own field. Thus, they provide the labours required for farming themselves.They were called farm labourers. 

Medium and large farmers hire them to work on their fields. Farm labourers do not have right over the crops grown on the land. They are paid wages by the farmer for whom they work. They are paid their wages in cash or in kind e.g crop. 

Q9) What are the factors of production?

Ans) The factors of production are land, labour, capital and enterprise. 

Q10) How is land distributed between the farmers of palampur? 

 Ans) People engaged in agriculture do not have sufficient land for cultivation. Thus, land are divided by following ways-

About 150 families are dalits and are landless. 

About 240 families cultivate small plots of land less than 2 hectares in size. 

About 60 families of medium and large farmers who cultivate more than 2 hectares of land.