Economics Activity Based Assignment

Aryan Agarwal
Class IX J, Roll no 10
1. It is important to use land very carefully because
land area under cultivation is practically fixed, so good
care should be taken care of land as well as other
natural resources.

2. Modern farming methods have numerous effects,

some of them good and others bad. Modern farming
benefits farmers by increasing production on a piece of
land and thus increasing their income, as they have a
larger amount of surplus crops to sell in the market.
Modern farming methods also help to create food
security in India, and increase the quality of crops. They
don’t require much labour either, since machines are
used instead to increase production on a given piece of
land. However, the increase of use of machinery creates
the issue of unemployment. Also, modern farming
poses many environmental problems, such as the
depletion of the underground water table due to
excessive use of water and the eroding of the fertility of
the soil due to excessive use of fertilisers. Modern
farming methods kill the microorganisms present in the
soil and overall pollute the water and the environment.

3. Yield is the amount of crop produced on a given

piece of land, which is increased through modern
farming methods.
4. ‘The yield of food grains hectare in Punjab, Haryana
and Uttar Pradesh.’ This is because farmers of these
states were the first to try out the modern farming
method in India. They set up tube wells for irrigation
and made use of HYV seeds, chemical fertilisers and
pesticides in farming. Machinery made ploughing and
harvesting easier, and soon the farmers were rewarded
with high yields.

5. The Green Revolution is a dramatic example of how

the input of greater knowledge in the form of improved
production technologies can rapidly increase the
productivity of scarce resources. It introduced the
Indian farmer to cultivation of crops using high-
yielding varieties(HYVs) of seeds. The father of the
Indian Green Revolution was M.S. Swaminathan.

6. Birth rate is the number of live births per thousand

of population per year.

7. ‘Our national policy aims at improving the

accessibility of healthcare, family welfare and
nutritional service with a special focus on the
underprivileged segment of the population.’

8. ‘The workplace population of India includes people

from the age group of 15 to 59 years.’
9. Population becomes human capital when there is
investment made in the form of education, training and
medical care.

10. Increase in longevity of life indicates a good quality

of life marked by self-confidence.