Question

Write Short Note on :
1) Agriculture in ancient India ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Indian agriculture began by 9000 BCE as a result of early cultivation of plants, and domestication of crops and animals. Settled life soon followed with implements and techniques being developed for agriculture. Double monsoons led to two harvests being reaped in one year.

Answer 2

Explanation:

India is the second largest producer of wheat and rice, the world's major food staples. India is currently the world's second largest producer of several dry fruits, agriculture-based textile raw materials, roots and tuber crops, pulses, farmed fish, eggs, coconut, sugarcane and numerous vegetables.

They grew crops along the river nile on the rich black soil. The different tools they used were simple but effective such as winnowing, scoops, mattocks, flint bladed sickles and plows.