Question

E. Answer the following questions:
1. What is tilling?
2. What are the various ways by which soil can be enriched? Explain.
3. What are weeds? How are they removed by the farmers?
4. Differentiate between:
(a) Logging and lodging
(b) Weedicides and pesticides
5. What are the advantages of ploughing of soil?​

Answer 1

1. The process of loosening and turning of soil is known as tilling or ploughing

2.The ways in which soil can be enriched are :-
a) preparation of soil
b) seed selection and sowing
c)manuring
d) irrigation
e)weeding
f)protection from diseases
g) harvesting, threshing, winnowing
h)storage

3. Weeds are he unwanted plants that grow along with the crops. Farmers remove them by spraying special chemicals called as herbicides or weedicides. They can also remove weeds using a sickle or by hand

4.