What are the main non-farm production activities taking place in your region? Write a brief report on anyone such activity.

On what terms did Savita get a loan from Tejpal? Would Savita's condition be different if he could get a loan from the bank at a low rate of interest?

Talk to some elderly persons in your region and write a small report on the changes in irrigation and changes in production methods during the last 30 years.

Imagine a situation where labor is the scarce factor of production instead of land. Would story of Rampur be different? How? Discuss in class.

Gosaipur and Majauli are two villages in North Bihar. Out of a total of 850 households in the two villages, there are more than 250 men who are employed in rural Punjab and Haryana or in Delhi, Mumbai, Surat, Hyderabad or Nagpur. Such migration is common in most villages across India. Why do people migrate? Can you describe (based on your imagination and previous chapter) the work that the migrants of Gosaipurauli might do at the place of destination?