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In the hypothetical village of Palampur all production activities are carried out with the help of natural resources, manmade items, human effort and money.

Road and transport system

• Palampur is well-connected with neighbouring villages and towns.
• The transport system in Palampur consists of bullock carts, tongas, bogeys and also, motor vehicles like motorcycles, jeeps, tractors and trucks

Housing and electricity system

• There are 450 families of which 80 belong to the upper caste and own major portion of land.
• Their houses are big and made of brick and plastered with cement.
• The SCs constitute one-third of the population and live in small mud and straw houses.
• Electricity is available at all houses and is used to power tubewells and small businesses.

Education and health centre

• There are two primary schools and one high school in Palampur.
• There is a government run primary health centre and one private owned health dispensary.

Organisation of Production

• Production aims at providing goods and services that people require.
• The four requirements or factors for production of goods and services are:
  • Land and other natural resources like water, forests, minerals, etc.
  • Some production activities require highly educated labour while others require labour that can do manual work.
  • Physical capital which includes fixed capital like tools, machines and buildings, working capital like raw materials and money and Human capital.

Farming in Palampur

• All the available land in Palampur is cultivated.
• Due to the well-developed system of irrigation, all farmers grow at least two and also, three different crops in a year.
• The high yielding varieties (HYVs) of seeds were used in the Green Revolution in the late 1960s which led to greater yields of wheat and rice.

Will the land sustain?

• Scientific reports indicate that the modern farming methods have overused the natural resource base leading to a loss of soil fertility.

How is land distributed between the farmers of Palampur?

• Out of a total of 450 families, the dalits and some others who constitute one third of the population are landless.
• 240 families own plots less than 2 hectares in size and do not earn not sufficient income from them.
• 60 families are of medium and large farmers who cultivate more than 2 hectares of land.

Who will provide the labour?

• Small farmers cultivate their own fields and provide the labour for faming themselves.
• Medium and large farmers provide for labour required by hiring farm labourers.

The capital needed in farming

• Most small farmers borrow money from large farmers or moneylenders or inputs for cultivation from traders.
• The medium and large farmers arrange capital needed from their own savings.

Sale of Surplus Farm Products

• A major part of crops in the market are supplied by medium and large farmers.
• Large farmers save part of their earnings in banks and lend the money to small farmers. Some use their savings to buy cattle, trucks or to set up shops.
• Apart from farming, activities such as dairy, small scale industries, shopkeepers, transport are commonly seen. Some educated people have also started computer centers.