Question

Write a note on a cluster or a firm near your school/home based on your observations.

Answer 1

Here is a sample of a cluster of firms observed in an area is given. This is to help students gain a basic idea about how to undertake this activity. Students can select their location, observe and write findings and do this activity.

Name of the Village: Neikkarapatti, Salem

1. Industrial cluster: Good quality and high production of Jaggery. The area in around almost all the houses, small or big make it a point to involve themselves in the production of Jaggery.
2. Type: It is one of the prominent Cottage Industries in the area.
3. Reason: Most of the farmers in the region cultivate sugarcane and own a jaggery-making unit.
4. Labour: It is a manual jaggery making traditional work, unmindful of the challenges.
5. Process: The whole process takes about five hours with different names locally as Vellam and Mandai Vellam based on the shape of the mould.