Question

Given below is a conversation between two farmers Heera and Beera.
Heera: Brother Beera, your maize crops looks beautiful! They have grown pretty fast.
Beera: Yes, I have sprayed urea this time. What about you?
Heera: Well, I am still relying on good old cow dung. I am saving money for buying a
tractor.
Beera: That’s good. Tractor saves a lot of time and labour.
Heera: Yes, it’s been very labour intensive for me and now these weeds have come up.
Beera: Try weedicides, they are very effective.
Now answer the following questions.
(a) List the practices which are not environment friendly and why?
(b) What is the advantage of modern agriculture implements over traditional ones?
(c) Name one weedicide and the precaution farmers must take during its application.
P.s. Please answer it according to class 8 level

Answer 1

Answer:

(a) Spraying or Applying weedicides is useful to kill the weeds in the fields but it may harm the Crops sown by the farmer(s).So It would not be fully beneficial if Heera would use Beera's suggestions.

Explanation:

Explanation is in the answer itself.

(b) The advantage of Modern farming equipments over Traditional ones is that modern farming equipments help us to work faster compared to traditional farming equipments.

Examples of traditional farming equipments are: sickle, hoe etc.

I hope this answer helps you.