Question

how ploughing helps in cropping

Answer 1

Farmers perform agricultural practices in a sequence. ▸ Preparation of Soil: Before sowing the crop seeds, the soil of fields is loosened and overturned. This process is called ploughing or tilling. Ploughing causes ventilation of soil and makes it suitable for the growth of small organisms living in it.

Answer 2

Advantages of ploughing are :

♦ Ploghing makes the soil loosen. Thus, helps the roots in exchange of gases.

♦ Loose soil helps the roots to penetrate deep inside the soil.

♦ Weeds are uprooted along with ploughing.

♦ Fertilisers and manures are also mixed up uniformly with the soil along with ploughing.

♦ Loose soil increases the growth of earthworms. Earthworms makes the soil loosen even furthur.

♦ Ploughing brings the nutrient rich soil from the lower layer to the top layer of the soil.

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