Rural Livelihoods - Worksheets

CBSE Worksheet 01

Ch-27 Rural Livelihoods

The village Kalpattu is surrounded by ________.
1. Hills
2. Plateaus
3. Desert
4. Plains
Which of the following is false regarding Sekar?
1. Required loan
2. To pay back loan he sold his paddy to the traders
3. Depend on labour
4. He work in Ramalingam Rice mill
Thulasi borrow money from Ramalingam for her ________.
1. Buying Fishing Equipment
2. Son’s treatment
3. Daughter’s treatment
4. Daughter’s marriage
Which of the following is not the source of livelihood for the people in rural areas?
1. Selling goods in Malls
2. Selling milk in nearby village
3. Fishing
4. Animal husbandry
When a group of people live and work together in the same place and share certain common interest they form a ________.
1. Village
2. Gang
3. District
4. Community

Match the following:

Column A	Column B
(i) Blacksmith	(a) The offspring of two plants or animals of different species or varieties
(ii) Paddy	(b) Moving of the people from one place to another
(iii) Migration	(c) It is the main crop that is grown in irrigated lands
(iv) Hybrid	(d) A person who works with iron and steel

Fill in the blanks:
1. In the villages, there is a local market called as ________.
2. In Kalpattu village, ________ is the main crop that is grown in irrigated lands.
3. The ________ village is in Phek district in Nagaland.
4. The people of Chizami village do ________ cultivation.
State true or false:
1. People in rural areas have high income.
2. The moving of people from one city or state to another in a country is known as immigration.
3. Kalpattu is a city that is close to the sea coast in Tamil Nadu.
4. During the monsoon period, fishermen survive by borrowing from the trader.
Why do landless labourers migrate to cities?
What is terrace farming?
Write some sentences on the work of agriculture.
Name the Non-Farm work of Kalpattu.
Give information about the landless or agricultural labourers in rural areas.
Name and explain the types of farmers in India. Also, list the different types of people you read about in Kalpattu who depend on farming. Who is the poorest among them and why?

CBSE Worksheet 01
Ch-27 Rural Livelihoods

Solution

(a) Hills
Explanation: Kalpattu is a village that's close to the sea coast in Tamil Nadu. The village is surrounded by low hills. Paddy is the main crop that is grown in irrigated lands. Most of the families earn a living through agriculture.
(c) Depend on labour
Explanation: Sekar is a small farmer in Ramalingam village. He has his own land in the village.
(c) Daughter’s treatment
Explanation: One of Thulasi's daughter fell ill and had to be taken to the hospital in town. She had to sell our cow to pay back the money we borrowed from Ramalingam for her treatment.
(a) Selling goods in Malls
Explanation: In villages, maximum people are engaged with farming activities and animal husbandry some villagers do have small shops, but they do not have malls.
(d) Community
Explanation: A community is a small social unit that has something in common, such as norms, religion, values, or identity. Communities often share a sense of place that is situated in a given geographical area or in virtual space through communication platforms and working norms. As we learn about a village called Chizami which is in the Phek district in Nagaland. The people of this village belong to the Chakhesang community.
(i) - (d), (ii) - (c), (iii) - (b), (iv) - (a).
1. Haat
2. Paddy (Kalpattu village is surrounded by low hills. Paddy is the main crop that is grown in irrigated lands there. Most of the families earn a living through agriculture)
3. Chizami (There is a village called Chizami which is in Phek district in Nagaland. The people of this village belong to the Chakhesang community. They do 'terrace' cultivation)
4. terrace
1. False (People in rural areas have low income)
2. False (Moving from one city to another is known as migration)
3. False (Kalpattu is a village that is close to the sea coast in Tamil Nadu)
4. True
Landless labourers migrate to cities in search of work.
In agriculture, a terrace is a piece of sloped plane that has been cut into a series of successively receding flat surfaces or platforms which resemble steps, for the purposes of more effective farming.
Following are some sentences on the work of agriculture:
1. Agriculture is the main work of the village people.
2. Paddy is the main crop grown in the irrigated fields.
3. Other crops are cotton, sugarcane and plantain.
4. There are some coconut groves.
5. There are several mango orchards.
Kalpattu is a village that is close to the seacoast in Tamil Nadu. As in other villages, People did many kinds of work. There is Non-farm work such as making Baskets, Utensils, Pots, Bricks, Bullock-carts etc.
Nearly 66.67% of the population in rural areas is an agricultural labourer. Some of them have their own small plots of land which cannot give them enough to earn their livelihood. Most of them are landless. They have to go to distant places to find work. This travel is called migration.
There are three kinds of farmers in India, namely:
1. Large farmers: They are rich farmers and have lots of money. They do not work on the land themselves but employ landless peasants.
2. Farmers with small landholdings: There is another group of people who own only a few acres of land. They cultivate the land themselves. They grow only a few crops and are able to produce very little on their land. They produce enough to fulfil their needs and sell the little that is left in the market.
3. Landless peasants: They work for long hours in the fields in tough conditions. As the work is seasonal, they are without work for a large part of the year. They are mostly not educated.
4. Thulasi, Sekar and Ramalingam in Kalpattu village depends on farming.
  Thulasi is the poorest among them. It is because she has no land of her own. She works on Ramalingam’s field and earns Rs. 40 per day. Although she is not satisfied with her wages, yet she continues her work in Ramalingam’s field because of the fact that she can depend on him.