Production, consumption, and capital formation are the basic economic activities. Production involves combining factors of land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship to produce goods and services. The factors are paid incomes of rent, wages, interest, and profits. Consumption is the use of goods and services to satisfy wants and needs. Some of current production is saved and added to existing capital like machinery and buildings to expand future production potential through capital formation. So what is produced is disposed through consumption or capital formation.
This presentation throws light on the rural entrepreneurship and rural development. Also, it talks about how rural development has progressed so far in the context of India.
Importance of rural entrepreneurship in rural areas and how to overcome the curb of migration from rural to urban areas. opportunities for village people in transforming village citizens into corporate nation citizens.
Opportunities and challenges for rural entrepreneurship in indiaSelladurai Muthusamy
Rural entrepreneurship has an imperative role to play in the
development of Indian economy. Taking into account the fact that
nearly 70 percent of the Indian population calls rural India it's home,
adequate funding and support can provide a prosperous entrepreneur
atmosphere in these communities. So far as it is known that rural India
as compared to the majority population is economically poor, younger,
more secluded geographically, secluded from the main markets, racially
imbedded in tradition, less dynamic economically and experiencing
depopulation. It is to be noticed that most of the entrepreneur
development policies are adapted to meet the needs of the urban India.
Such policies will have to be changed by establishing such centers
which exclusively deal with the rural communities and provide
consulting and research facilities.
This presentation throws light on the rural entrepreneurship and rural development. Also, it talks about how rural development has progressed so far in the context of India.
Importance of rural entrepreneurship in rural areas and how to overcome the curb of migration from rural to urban areas. opportunities for village people in transforming village citizens into corporate nation citizens.
Opportunities and challenges for rural entrepreneurship in indiaSelladurai Muthusamy
Rural entrepreneurship has an imperative role to play in the
development of Indian economy. Taking into account the fact that
nearly 70 percent of the Indian population calls rural India it's home,
adequate funding and support can provide a prosperous entrepreneur
atmosphere in these communities. So far as it is known that rural India
as compared to the majority population is economically poor, younger,
more secluded geographically, secluded from the main markets, racially
imbedded in tradition, less dynamic economically and experiencing
depopulation. It is to be noticed that most of the entrepreneur
development policies are adapted to meet the needs of the urban India.
Such policies will have to be changed by establishing such centers
which exclusively deal with the rural communities and provide
consulting and research facilities.
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This paper deals with the problems faced by small scale industries in Sivakasi and some mitigation techniques to avoid the
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River Odai in Sivakasi. That river was mainly encroached by many people of Sivakasi at the olden days itself. That river was one of
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Basic economic activities
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6
BASICECONOMICACTIVITIES
Production, consumption and capital formation are called the basic economic
activities of an economy. Scarce resources are used in the production of goods and
services with the objective of satisfying our needs and wants. The process of
productionofgoodsandservicesiscarriedbycombiningthefactorslikeland,labour,
capital and entrepreneurship. Factors are paid rent, wages, interest and profits for
their productive services. The consumption activity consists of the use of goods and
services for the direct satisfaction of individual or collective human wants.Apart of
current production is saved for future to add to existing capital stock like, plant,
machinery,buildingetc.everyyearinordertoexpandproductionpotentialinfuture.
So whatever is produced is disposed of either for consumption or for capital
formation or both.
OBJECTIVES
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
understand production and its goals;
know the factors of production and factor incomes;
know about consumption;
be familiar with the goods produced for consumption;
understand how production and consumption help in capital formation;
explain circular flow of economic activities.
6.1 PRODUCTION
Inthelastlessonyouhavereadaboutscarcityofresourcesandmakingchoice.These
scarce resources are used in the production of goods and services. The goal of
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production is to satisfy our wants. These goods and services produced can be sold
in markets or can be provided by the government to public at nominal charge.
Therefore Production is defined as creation of utility.
Production activities involve making of goods and services. People who make and
sell these goods and services are known as producers. The producers combine the
factors like land, labour, capital and entrepreneurship along with raw materials in
order to transform them into various goods and services. Land, labour, capital and
entrepreneurship are called the factors of production. The producers try to
produce maximum amount of goods and services by using various combination of
factors of production. Let us know more about these factors of production.
6.1.1 Land
Land is a gift of nature. It includes plain region, mountains and plateau region. The
plain region is useful for agriculture and industrial activities. Mountains ensure flow
of rivers into the plain region and provide facilities for tourism. Plateau region
possesses reserves of minerals, fossil fuels and forests. Production of food grains,
vegetables,fruitsetcrequireagriculturallandintheplanregion.Alongwiththispeople
alsocarryoutanimalhusbandry,fisheriesandforestrywhicharecalledalliedactivities.
In India rural area is known for carrying out agricultural and allied activities. Some
amount of land in the plain region is specially developed to establish industries and
urban areas such as towns and cities.
6.1.2 Labour
In general labour implies the human effort through physical and mental exertions in
the production of goods and services.Aperson working on the agricultural field is
said to provide his physical labour while a writer of a book is said to provide his
mental labour. People who provide labour are known as human resources.
Productionactivitiesrequirebothskilledandunskilledlabour.Purelyphysicallabour
suchasloadingandunloading,ploughingonthefieldetcdonotrequirespecialskill.
But to become an engineer, doctor, teacher, lawyer, mechanic, electrician or tailor
etc one must acquire skill through education and training.
6.1.3 Capital
By capital, we mean all man made appliances and all types of wealth used in
production. Capital consists of machinery, tools, buildings, materials etc. Whereas
land is a natural resource, capital is a man made resource. Capital is used to increase
theefficiencyofotherfactorsofproductionlikelandorlabour.Theefficiencyofland
can be increased by use of better irrigation facilities and machines. However, capital
is a passive factor of production and cannot be used without employing labour to
work. Capital has a limited span of life, and becomes obsolete after a certain period.
Small tools like, screwdrivers, calculators to heavy machines like engines, tractors,
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ships are all examples of fixed capital, as they can be used in production for many
years. Fixed capital also includes the buildings and heavy machines. The working
capitalincludesrawmaterialslikecottonyarn,clay,seeds,fertilizers,whichareused-
up in the process of production.
6.1.4 Entrepreneurship
Somebody must take the initiative to start the process of production of goods or
services by bringing land, labour and capital together in right proportion. He will be
responsible for choosing the right type of land, labour and capital and take important
decisions with respect to quantity to be produced, money to be spent to buy the
factors and raw materials, marketing the output produced etc. Entrepreneurship
is the art of organizing the production activity.The person who makes the decisions
and controls the production process and bears the risks and uncertainties involved
in production is called an entrepreneur. He/She should be knowledgeable,
courageousandshouldpossessleadershipqualities.Theobjectiveofanentrepreneur
is to get maximum production by using the given resources and make arrangements
for the sale of the finished products. He/she is also responsible to make payments
to other factors of production.
He/she pays wages to the labourers, rent to the landlords and interest to the owner
of capital in return for their productive services. Similarly, they earn profit for their
productive activity. Since these payments, rent, wages, interest and profits are
received by the factors for their productive services, they are termed as
factor incomes.
INTEXT QUESTIONS 6.1
1. Below is a list of some of the factors that are used to produce shirts. Group
them into natural resources, human resources, fixed capital and working
capital
Yarn, machinery, tailors, land for factory, wooden doors, colour, dye,
building, sewing machines, telephones, marketing managers, advertising
managers, packaging machines, scissors, buttons, bank loans, cash
money
2. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of land:
(a) Mobile
(b) Gift of nature
(c) Limitedinquantity
(d) Indestructible
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6.2 FACTOR INCOMES
These factors of production are owned by people. Land is owned by the landlord,
labour is owned by labourer, capital is owned by people who acquire capital goods,
entrepreneurship is owned by the entrepreneur.The owners of factors of production
are paid in return for their productive services. When you hire a piece of land, you
pay rent to the landlord for using the services of land. Thus the tenant pays rent for
the services of land. Labour refers to the services rendered by the workers. It refers
to the all types of workers, manual labour, technical workers and so on. When an
employer requires the services rendered by a worker, he/she is ready to pay for his
services. By hiring a worker, actually his services are hired. When a loan is taken
from a bank to buy a tractor, seeds, machienery etc. interest is paid to bank. Thus,
rent is paid to the landlords, wages to the labourers, interest to the owners of capital
resources and profit to the entrepreneurs. Since they are paid in return to their
productive services, they are called factor payments and their incomes are called
factor incomes.
INTEXT QUESTIONS 6.2
Ram Singh is farmer in a village of Haryana, who owns 2 hectares of land. Both,
he and his wife Rani, work in the field. Earlier, they only grew paddy on their land.
Now they want to increase the productivity of their land by growing two crops and
better variety of seeds and irrigation. They want to grow two crops, paddy and
potatoes. For this they need money to buy good quality seeds and fertilizers.As they
donothaveenoughmoney,bothworkinother’sfarmsaslabourer.Theyspendsome
moneyonthefertilizers,seeds,pumpsetsetc.Afterworkingveryhard,theymanage
to have a good crop of both paddy and potato. They keep some paddy and potato
grown in their farm for their personal use and sell the rest. They earn Rs. 12,000
by selling their crops.
Identify the factors of production in this story?
What are the capital goods used in this example?
6.3 CONSUMPTION
The objective of production is to produce goods and services for consumption. The
consumption activity consists of the use of goods and services for the direct
satisfaction of individual or collective human wants or needs.To satisfy their wants
the households purchase a large variety of goods and services like cycles, furniture,
television set, car, refrigerator, food grains, milk, oil, soap etc. and services like
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barber, teacher, doctor, bank and insurance companies etc. There is no time gap
between the production and consumption of services. In case of services production
and consumption take place simultaneously.They are consumed as soon as they are
produced, such as the services of doctors, lawyers, teachers etc.As you visit a doctor
to take medical advice, you consume his service. This is not the case with regard
to goods. There is a time gap between the production and consumption of goods.
Goods are considered to be consumed when they are purchased. However, certain
durable goods like furniture, cycles etc. continue to provide services for many years,
still they are considered to be consumed as soon as they are purchased.
6.4 CAPITAL FORMATION
The third important activity of an economy is capital formation.As you have read,
factor owners get factor incomes in return for their productive services. They spend
a large part of their incomes on goods and services such as food articles, cloth,
furniture, housing, bicycles, education, health care etc. However, they do not spend
their entire income on these goods and services. They also save some income and
deposit it in bank for future. For example, if an individual has an income of Rs. 500/
allofwhichsheconsumes,thereisnosaving.Insteadifsherestrictsherconsumption
to Rs.300/, she saves Rs.200/ and may use this money to deposit in bank for future
use. The bank, in turn, may use this money to lend an industrialist to invest in the
expansion of his business. Capital formation is done by refraining from present
consumption. It should be noted that saving, if kept idle, cannot constitute capital
formation. If a person saves money and locks up in the house, no capital formation
takes place. If only the saved money is invested in capital goods it leads to capital
formation by facilitating production and consumption in future. Thus, current
consumptionisforgoneandusedtowardsaddingtoexistingcapitalstocklike,plant,
machinery,buildingetc.everyyearinordertoexpandproductionpotentialinfuture.
This increase in the stock of capital goods in a year is called capital formation or
investment.Similarly,apartofnation’soutputisdevotednottoimmediatesatisfaction
ofconsumerwantsbuttotheprovisionofplantsandequipmentsbywhichproduction
is maintained and expanded. To sum up, whatever is produced is disposed of either
for consumption or for capital formation or both.
These three activities, production, consumption and capital formation are inter-
related.An increase in the production of goods and services increases the level of
consumptionandcapitalformation.Increaseinconsumptionisanindicatorofrising
standard of living of people and increase in capital formation is very important as
the growth of the country depends on it. More consumption is possible if there is
more production and more production is possible if there is more capital formation.
Thus, the three economic activities have their impact on one-another to take the
economy forward to the path of development.
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Circular Flow Chart
INTEXT QUESTIONS: 6.3
1. Give two examples of durable goods, non-durable goods and services.
2. There is an excess of production over consumption in a year.Where does it go?
3. How does production facilitate consumption and capital formation?
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT
Production, consumption and capital formation are three basic economic
activities.
Production is defined as creation of utility.
Land, labour, capital and entrepreneurship are four factors of production.
Wages, interest, rent and profits are the factor payments made by the firm to
the owners of factors of production. For the owners of the factor services the
same are called factor incomes.
Consumption means using up of goods and services for direct satisfaction of
individualandcollectivewants.
Capital formation is the surplus of production over consumption over a period
of time.
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TERMINAL EXERCISE
1. An agricultural land is a fixed resource. How can its productivity be increased?
2. How can the productivity of labour be increased?
3. What are the main functions of an entrepreneur?
4. How does capital add to the productivity of labour?
5. If there is an excess of production over consumption in a year, where does it
go?Also mention two goods which help in capital formation in an economy.
6. Mentionthethreeimportanteconomicactivitiesandshowtheirinter-relationship
diagrammatically.
7. Purchase of a cycle by a household is treated as:
(a) Capitalformation
(b) Production by household
(c) Consumption
(d) Production for self consumption
8. Which of the following statements are true or false:
(a) Capital formation increases the capital of a country.
(b) Growing vegetables in the kitchen garden is not a part of production.
(c) A farmer producing wheat for self consumption is a part of production.
(d) A teacher teaching in school is production.
(e) A student using stationery is production.
(f) Digging a well by the members of a family in their own field is a part of
capitalformation.
(g) Atrucktransportingwheatfromavillagetothemarketinthenearbytown
is a part of production.
9. Fill in the blanks:
(a) Roads constructed by the government are ........................... (production/
capitalformation).
(b) Purchase of a tractor by a farmer is a part of .......................... (production/
consumption).
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(c) Anewhousepurchasedbyanindividualis..........................(consumption/
production).
(d) A doctor seeing a patient is .......................... (production/consumption).
(e) Astudentstudyinginaschoolis..........................(production/consumption).
ANSWERS TO INTEXT QUESTIONS
Intext Questions 6.1
1. Natural resources – Land for factory
Human resources – Tailors, Marketing managers,Advertising managers.
Fixedcapital–Machinery,woodendoors,buildings,sewingmachines,telephones,
packaging machines, and scissors.
Working capital- yarn, dye, buttons, bank loan, cash money.
2. a.
Intext Questions 6.3
1. Durable goods:Television, refrigerator, washing machine etc.
Non-durable goods: Bread, butter, milk, flour.
Services: Barber’s services, services of teacher, services of a doctor.
2. It goes to capital formation.
3. An increase in production of goods and services increases the level of
consumption and capital formation. More consumption is possible only when
there is more production and more capital formation is possible only when
production is more than consumption.