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The fare was thirty paise one way — “which is almost nothing at all,” she heard one well-dressed man say, but to alli, who scarcely saw that much money from one month to the next, it seemed a fortune.The Konkani peasants also gave supplies of rice which the shepherds took back to the plateau where grain was scarce.' In the hills the Gujars are exclusively a pastoral tribe – they cultivate scarcely at all.The vegetation cover is scarce here because of scanty rain and scorching heat.We saw that water is becoming scarce due to increase in population, industries and agricultural activities.For the people in the cities, bread and flour became scarce.The colours in the dress were so vivid that she had scarcely noticed the face and head of the drawing.I sit inside, doors open to the veranda writing long letters in which I scarcely mention the departure of the forest from the house.In fact the resource rich Africa and Latin America have some of the poorest countries in the world, whereas many prosperous countries have scarcely any natural wealth.These subsidies have now reached unsustainable levels and have also led to large scale inefficiencies in the use of these scarce inputs.India's Green Revolution is a dramatic example of how the input of greater knowledge in the form of improved production technologies can rapidly increase the productivity of scarce land resources.This is an important achievement, since land is fixed and scarce.“If we are not careful then even renewable resources can become very scarce and the non- renewable ones can definitely get exhausted”.Groups compete over scarce resources, both material resources, e.g. territory, and money as well as social resources, e.g. respect and esteem.