Rural livelihoods

NCERT solutions for Civics

NCERT Class 6 Social Science Chapter Wise Solutions

History – Our Pasts Part I

Chapter 1 – What, Where, How and when?
Chapter 2 – On The Trial of the Earliest People
Chapter 3 – From Gathering to Growing Food
Chapter 4 – In the Earliest Cities
Chapter 5 – What Books and Burials Tell Us
Chapter 6 – Kingdoms, Kings and an Early Republic
Chapter 7 – New Questions and Ideas
Chapter 8 – Ashoka, The Emperor Who gave Up War
Chapter 9 – Vital, Villages and Pilgrims
Chapter 10 – Traders, Kings and Pilgrims
Chapter 11 – New Empires and Kingdoms
Chapter 12 – Bulidings, Paintings and Books

Geography – The Earth Our Habitat Part I

Chapter 1 – The Earth in the Solar System
Chapter 2 – Globe: Latitudes and Longitudes
Chapter 3 – Motions of the Earth
Chapter 4 – Maps
Chapter 5 – Major Landforms of the Earth
Chapter 6 – Major Domains of the Earth
Chapter 7 – Our Country – India
Chapter 8 – India: Climate, Vegetation and Wildlife

Civics

Chapter 1 – Understanding Diversity
Chapter 2 – Diversity and Discrimination
Chapter 3 – What is Government
Chapter 4 – Key Elements of a Democratic Government
Chapter 5 – Panchayati Raj
Chapter 6 – Rural Administration

NCERT solutions for Class 6 Social Science Civics rural livelihoods

Question 1. You have probably noticed that people in Kalpattu are engaged in a variety of non-farm work. List five of these.

Answer: The people of Kalpattu are engaged in the following non-farm work :

Making pots
Making basket
Making bricks
Making utensils
Making bullock-carts.

Question 2. List the different types of people you read about in Kalpattu who depend on farming. Who is the poorest among them and why?

Answer: There are three different types of people who depend on farming:

Big landowner
Small landowner
Landless farmers

In Kalpattu village, agricultural labourers are the poorest because they depend on the work they do on other people’s fields to earn a living. Many of them are landless and others may own very small plots of land.

Question 3. Imagine you are a member of a fishing family and you are discussing whether to take a loan from the bank for an engine. What would you say?

Answer: If I were a member of the fishing family, I would say we must take a loan from the bank for an engine to improve my income.
A poor fisherman cannot purchase the costly product for its business for eg. Catamaran engine. So the only option is to take a loan from the bank as well as the bank is a trusted institution than a money lender.

Question 5. What do you think the government can do to help farmers like Sekar when they get into debt? Discuss.
Answer: The Government can provide assistance to farmers like Sekar in the following ways:

Interest-free loan or waiving the loan
Loan at the lowest rate
Subsidy of fertilisers and pesticides
Cultivation can be insured
Sufficient time to be given to pay the bank loan

Question 6. Compare the situation of Sekar and Ramalingam by filling out the following table:
Answer :

	Sekar	Ramalingam
1. Land cultivated	About 2 acres	About 20 acres
2. Labour required	During the time of harvesting required labour.	Labour required in large numbers.
3. Loans required	Yes loan required for fertilizers, seeds, pesticides etc.	He takes loans from govt, banks to set up a rice mill.
4. Selling of harvest	Sell at low cost to the lenders	Sell at a high cost to the traders
5. Other work done by them	He has a hybrid cow, whose milk he sells in the local milk cooperatives and also works in Ramalingam’s rice mill.	He is the owner of a rice mill and has several shops.

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