Question

IV. Answer the following.
1. What is agriculture?
2. Write about farmers.
3. Name the different types of farming.
4. What is well irrigation?
5. Give a short note on the Central Ground Water Board.
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Answer 1

Answer:

1. Agriculture is the science, art and practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities.
2. A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock.
3. #2. Shifting Agriculture:
4. #3. Plantation Agriculture:
5. #4. Intensive Farming:
6. #5. Dry Agriculture:
7. #6. Mixed and Multiple Agriculture:
8. #7. Crop Rotation:
9. #8. Terrace Cultivation:
10. well irrigation is a type of irrigation in which the fields of farmer are irrigated by using the well. Wells can be of two type one is a. ,1 man dugged well. another type of well is too well which is run by electricity.
11. Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), a subordinate office of the Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India, is the National Apex Agency entrusted with the responsibilities of providing scientific inputs for management, exploration, monitoring, assessment, augmentation and regulation of ground water resources of the country. Central Ground Water Board was established in 1970 by renaming the Exploratory Tube wells Organization under the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. It was merged with the Ground Water Wing of the Geological Survey of India during 1972.