Question

Compare the situation of Sekar and Ramalingam by filling out the following table:

Answer 1

	Sekar	Ramalingam
1. Land cultivated	About 2 acres	About 20 acres
2. Labour required	During the time of harvesting required labour otherwise manage to do the works of his own	Depends on labour.They have much land and thus need many labours to cultivate it.
3. Loans required	Yes,for fertilizers , seeds,pesticides etc.He takes loan from the trader.	He takes loans from govt,banks to set up a rice mill.
4. Selling of harvest	He sells a few bags of his paddy to the trader at low price than providing in the market and repay the loan.	He would sell his paddy in the market.
5. Other work done by them	He has a hybrid cow ,whose milk he sells in the local milk cooperatives and also work in Ramalingam"s rice mill.	He is the owner of a rice mill and have several shops.