People As Resource Test - 3

Activities associated with the primary sector include agriculture (both subsistence and commercial), mining, forestry, farming, grazing, hunting and gathering, fishing, and quarrying.

Slash-and-burn agriculture, also called fire-fallow cultivation, is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field. It is also known as shifting farming.

In agriculture, multiple cropping is the practice of growing two or more crops in the same piece of land in same growing seasons instead of one crop. It is a form of polyculture.

Most small farmers have to borrow money to arrange for the capital. They borrow from large farmers or the village moneylenders or the traders who supply various inputs for cultivation. The rate of interest on such loans is very high. They are put to great distress to repay the loan.

In many areas, Green Revolution is associated with the loss of soil fertility due to increased use of chemical fertilisers. Also, continuous use of groundwater for tubewell irrigation has led to the depletion of the water-table. Environmental resources, like soil fertility and groundwater, are built up over years.

An economic activity is an activity that is undertaken with the aim of earning a profit. It is added in the total GNP - Gross National product. The activities of a doctor, teacher and a lawyer are economic activities, but the activity of helping the poor is a non-economic activity.

Primary sector uses natural resources for the purpose of production of goods. For example, agriculture, forestry, fishing etc

Tertiary sector is the sector that provides all the services such as banking, insurance and education. Manufacturing is not included here as it a part of the secondary sector. This sector takes the raw materials from the primary sector as inputs and uses them to provide finished products to the consumers.

Disguised unemployment is the type of unemployment that occurs when the number of workers required to do a job exceeds the actual number of workers required to do it. This is more common in rural areas, where the numbers of people working in an agriculture farm exceed the actual number required.

Infant mortality ratio is the number of children that die before the age of one year as a proportion of 1000 live births. A fall in IMR signifies an increase in the life expectancy