cart drawn by buffalos) loaded with jaggery and other commodites to mator vechiles like motorcycles, jeeps, tractors and truks.
Farming is the main production activity in rampur. Majority of the working people are dependent on farming for their livelihood. They could be farmers or farm laboures. The well - being of these people is closely releted to the production on the farms.
land is the most crucial factor necessary for farm production. Land area under cultivation, however, is practically fixed.in Rampur, since 1921,there has been no expansion in land area under cultivation.
By then, the nearby forests had been cleared and some of the wastelands in the village is no future scope to increase agricultural production by bringing new land cultivation.
There is no land that is left idel in Rampur. During the rainy season (kharif), farmers grow jowar and bajra. These are grown as catle feed also. it is followed by cultivation of potato between October and December. in the winter season (rabi), fields are sown with wheat. From the total produce, farmers keep enough wheat for the family's consumption and sell the surplus at the market - yard at Raigani. A part of the land is used for sugarcane production which is harvested once every year. sugarcane, in raw from, or as jaggery, is sold to traders in Jahangirabad, the nearby town.
Growing more than one crop on the same piece of land during the year is known as Multiple cropping. It is the most common way of increasing production from land. All farmers in Rampur grow at least two main crops; many are growing potato as the third crop.
Farmers in Rampur are able to grow three diferent corps in a year due to the well-developed irrigation system. Eletricity came early to Rampur. It transformed the system of irrigation. Till then, Persian wheels where used by farmers to draw water from the wells and irrigate small areas. people saw that the electric -run tubewells could irrigate much larger areas of land easily. The first few tubewells were installed by the government almost fifty years ago. Soon, however, farmers started seting up their own tube wells. As a result, by mid - 1970s, the whole of the cultiveted area of 264 hectares (ha.)was irrigated.
Not all vilages in India have such hight levels of irrigation. Apart from the riverine plains, Costal regions in our country are well-irrigated. in contrast, platueaus regions such as the Deccan plateau have low levels of irrigation. Even today, a little less than 40 percent of the total cultivated area in the country is irrigated. In