Rural Livelihood - Chapter Wise CBSE Solved Question and Answer Based On NCERT
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Q1: Why do you think that there is seasonal unemployment in villages?
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In the villages of India, the main occupation of the people is agriculture or farming. Farmers do not get work throughout the year. Farming involves many activities like preparing land for sowing, transplanting saplings, weeding grass, applying fertilisers, harvesting crops and threshing grains. Whole work is done in periodic intervals. Due the break in the continuity of the farming work, there is seasonal unemployment in villages. When there is no work in the farm the farmers has to look for other work like making bricks, carrying bricks, building roads and houses.
Q2: Describe the life of the fishing community in Pudupet.
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People in Pudupet earn their living by fishing. Their houses are close to the sea and were surrounded with catamarans and nets. Early in the morning fishermen with their catamarans get into the sea for fishing and in the evening the catamarans return with their catch. Women gather to buy and sell fish and later they sell their fish in the local market.
