Rural Livelihood - Chapter Wise CBSE Solved Question and Answer Based On NCERT
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Q1: What are the other works that Thulasi do besides working on the land?
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Cook food, clean the house and wash clothes
Q2: What happens when crops are ruined?
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Collecting firewood, getting water and grazing their cattle
Q3: How do poor families in rural areas spend their time every day?
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Thulasi work on the land that belongs to others.
Q4: Where does Thulasi work?
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Farmers are unable to repay their loans
Q5: During monsoon failure, what do the farmers do for their survival?
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Borrow money
Q6: Industrial Workers are the workers who are able to work throughout the year. True/False
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True
Q7: Which is the main crop that is grown in irrigated lands?
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Paddy
Q8: Why do people in rural areas travel long distances?
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In search of work
Q9: What are the other source of income for farmers other than farming?
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Collection from the forest, animal husbandry, dairy produce, fishing etc.
Q10: Setting up of schools is the work being carried out by people in the rural areas. True/False
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False
Q11: Out of every 5 rural families how many belong to the agricultural labourer's families in India?
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Two
Q12: Terrace Farming is best for _______.
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Paddy
Q13: What are the shops that Ramalingam owns?
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In addition to land, Ramalingam owns a rice mill and seeds and pesticides shop.
Q14: Chizami village is in Phek district in _________.
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Nagaland.
Q15: What the people of Chizami village do?
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Terrace cultivation
Q16: What is the major occupation of the 'Kalpattu' people?
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Agriculture
Q17: Where is the Chizami village located?
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Nagaland
Q18: An age-old economic activity in India is _______.
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Agriculture
Q19: When dose The ''Community Development Programme'' was introduced?
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1952
Q20: People use their power in democracy through _______.
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Election
Q21: Farmers, agricultural labourers and fishing families are not able to work throughout the year, but factory workers can work throughout the year. True/false
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True
Q22: The villagers of ''Pudupet'' earn their livelihood from ______.
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Fishing
Q23: According to the chapter, Ramalingam, large farmer, in Kalpattu village borrowed money from government bank to start a ________.
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Rice mill
Q24: According to the chapter what is the daily wage that Ramalingam pays to Thulasi for her labour in his lands?
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Rs- 40
Q25: What is the meaning of Five Year Plan of India?
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The economy of India is based on planning through its five year plans developed and executed by the Planning Commission of India.
Q26: People in many rural areas travel long distances, mainly, to _________.
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search for work
Q27: What is the percentage of small farmers in India?
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80 percent
Q28: What is the percentage of large farmers in India?
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20 percent
Q29: Name the Indian state where the Terrace farming is popular.
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Nagaland
Q30: What are civic life of the society?
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The activities that are carried on in the society, the family, the school and the neighbourhood are called the civic life of the society.
Q31: People prepare their land for growing paddy crop in the month of ___________.
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June.
Q32: What is the percentage of Indians living in villages?
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Nearly 65% of Indians are living in the villages.
Q33: What is the important sources of livelihood for the families of some villages in central India?
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Farming and collecting forest produces.
Q34: List some non-farm work of the villagers in Kalpattu village?
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Making of baskets, utensil, pots etc. There are people who provide services such as nurses, washer men, weavers, barbers, tailors etc.
Q35: What is agriculture?
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The term agriculture is derived from Latin word ager or agri meaning soil and culture meaning cultivation or tilling of soil.
Q36: Where is Pudupet village situated?
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Pudupet village is situated in Tamil Nadu on the coastal line.
Q37: Name the units of civic life.
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There are three units of civic life namely the family, the school and the neighbourhood.
Q38: Who was the first Prime Minister to present the Five Year Plan of India?
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Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Q39: What was zamindari system?
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It was the system in which the land was mostly owned by big landlords called zamindars.
Q40: How can citizens take part in civic life?
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The citizens should work towards the betterment of their community through public and volunteer work and other efforts to improve life of all citizens.
Q41: Vicious circle of poverty is the cause of backwardness of agriculture. True/False
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True
Q42: What do we call to an institution which recieves deposits of money or of credit and which seeks profits through the extension or sale of its own credit?
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Bank
Q43: Define private debt.
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Loans which an individual takes for his/her personal consumption from other people or institutions.