Rajan felt worried about the condition of water scarcity in his village during the cropping season.He went to ministry of agriculture and farmers welfare of his area to get the solution of his problem.There he came to know about effective method of irrigation and drought resistant and drought resistant varities of crop
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Q. Rajan felt worried about the condition of water scarcity in his village during the cropping season. He went to Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare of his area to get the solution of this problem. There he came to know about effective method of irrigation and drought resistant varieties of crop. He requested the head of department of the ministry to arrange some workshop on this topic to educate the farmers in these methods.
a) Name modern methods of irrigation that help us to use water economically.
Ans. Modern methods of irrigation are:-
> Surface Irrigation, Subsurface irrigation
> Drip irrigation and Sprinkler irrigation
b) What is drought resistant varieties of crop?
Ans. Crops that need very little amount of rainfall or irrigation to grow are called drought resistant varieties of crop. Some examples are Sorghum, pearl millet, chickpea, groundnut, etc.
c) Can you name some crops that require less amount of water?
Ans. Crops that require less amount of water are:-
Peas, Lentils, Fava, beans
What value of Raj is shown here?
Ans. Rajan is concerned about nature, care for nature, sensitive and Intelligent.
a) The modern methods of irrigation are
1) Sprinkler irrigation
2) Drip irrigation
3) Surface irrigation
4) sub irrigation
Among all these methods of irrigation, sprinkler and drip irrigation methods can be employed for using water economically.
b) Drought resistant varieties of crops refers to the crops that can withstand the drought stress. In simple words we can say these crops can live without water for longer period of time.
c) Crops that require less amount of water are peas, mustard, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, lentils, watermelon etc.,
d) Awareness, intellectuality, sensitive nature of Ranjan is shown here.
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