Its about potters

1. Community
project
Report on potter’s livelihood
By A.ACHUTH REDDY
BBA 1ST YEAR (ALPHA)
2211BM010006

2. Table of contents
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Potter’s
livelihood in
villages
Raw materials
and process of
pot making
Challenges and
local community
policies
Developing their business
using technology

3. Introduction
Dullapally is a town located in
medchal district, Hyderabad We
observed that many families
depended on this pot making
industries.
Pottery being an age old
handicraft in India, the roots of
the India pottery industry can be
traced back to the earliest times
of civilization.

4. 01 .Potter’s livelihood
Pot making is the major source of
employment in villages most of the
potter’s are from the villages they live
in very unhygienic palaces ,In
Dullapally we have observed that
potter’s facing many challenges in
their work place like lack of soil, low
price ,local community policies due to
these factors they are not able to
satisfy their basic needs

5. Financial
condition
The financial condition of potter’s is very bad because
they should buy the raw material (soil) In many villages
soil is free for potter’s but in dullapally they have to buy
the soil around 3000 per tractor load ,the manufacturing
cost per pot is 2 rs to 5 rs depended on the size of the
pot ,their profit margin is around 1 to 2 rs per pot ,but
the middle man sell the pots for 8 to 10 rs in local
markets

6. Raw materials
and process of
pot making

7. Raw
materials
The major raw materials in pot making
industries are soil,water,cotton,wood,
rotating wheel and Thread.
Potter’s collect the soil from the nearest
lakes or tanks .
Steps involved in pot making
● Collecting soil
● Mixing with water
● Mouldings
● Crushing
● Drying
● Clay preparation

8. Pottery making process
Crushing Shaping Firing Painting
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

9. Process of making pots
Pots are usually shaped on a potter's wheel. This
wheel is turned with the feet or hands, or by an
electric motor.
After being shaped on the wheel, the pot is dried
naturally and fired in a particular location
The pot is finally fired at a temperature suitable for
the pot
Finally the pots are painted or designed as per the
customer interest in their locality

10. Life is just like Potters clay It gets
shaped by your own hands
- tanuja
Srivastava

11. Challenges :-
Present days there is good scope in the this industry but
the people involved in this industry are facing different
kinds of challenges or problems like shortage of raw
materials, manpower, and lack of space to dry the
formed pottery, firing pottery, trading of pots , lack of
employment in rainy season ,low prices , to store the
finished goods along with the different raw materials

12. Local community policies :-
Some of the government policies like refusing to
extract soil from nearest lakes or tanks, some
particular rules of communities like selling their
products to middle man , refusing them to sell their
products to customers directly which leads to the
development of local potters families in the villages

13. Tips to develop their business :-
• They should sell their
products to the customers
directly
• They should create
awareness on their products
• They should fought for their
rights
• Over come some community
policies
• Start their own
industry/business with out
any middle man

14. Using technology in pottery
industry :-
• Now a days technology plays an important role
industry because everyone are habituated to
social media
• By creating accounts in different social media
applications helps to develop our business
• It can also create awareness on the hand made
products like pots by doing so their financial
condition is better compared to past financial
conditions

16. Conclusion:-
The culture that the craftsmen have still maintained a great bond from many years. It
many years. It becomes a tradition to carry this art form for generations. The art is
The art is influenced by the history and past methods used by the craftsmen and has
craftsmen and has really admired it.
Some government policies should create for this pot making industries that should
industries that should get minimum income from their business they should get free soil
should get free soil they should sell thier products by creating awareness on them.
awareness on them.

17. Than
ks