A Shirt in the Market - Chapter Wise CBSE Solved Question and Answer Based On NCERT
Points To Remember:
Farmers grow cotton on their lands. The bolls carrying cotton takes several days to ripe and after it ripens it is harvested
Cotton cultivation requires high levels of input such as fertilizers and pesticides, and farmers have to incur heavy expenses in lieu of these
Weaver weaves clothes that have been made on order from the merchant. These merchants supply clothes on order to garment manufacturers and exporters throughout the country
At the cloth market, clothes are sold by merchants to the garment factories
Workers work on loom to weave clothes. They are paid very less for this work
In a weaver’s cooperative the weavers form a group and take up some activities collectively like procuring of yarn from the yarn dealer and distributing it among wavers. They also do marketing. This decreases the role of merchant and weavers get fair price on the clothes
The garment exporting factory uses the cloth to make dresses of different designs and patterns. The dress is then exported to foreign buyers also. They maximise their own profits by getting maximum work from workers at lowest price and supply the foreign buyers at cheap rates
The foreign business person earns maximum profit, garment exporters made moderate profits and the workers earns minimum for their hard work
