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5. "GREEN IS CLEAN" all of you must have heard of this slogan.......So organize a paragraph writing
competition in your class on the topic “GREEN REVOLUTION”.

6. Explore about the latest farming techniques such as strip-till and cover crop farming.

7. Write about the Green Revolution of 1960's and state how it changed the agricultural landscape of
India.
8. If you are a pisciculturist, what do you do for living?

9. Although major proportion of our food is constituted by plants but some essential proteins are
supplemented to us by animal products. So try and investigate about “animal husbandry” and
search for milch animals, poultry birds, pisciculture and apiculture. Prepare a short and brief report.

10. Very short answer type question.
(a) What are kharif crops ?

(b) What is agriculture ?
(c) Write the names of different types of crops on the basis of their products.
(d) Write the names of different methods of sowing seeds.

11. Short answer type questions:
(a) What is broadcasting and tilling ?

(b) Discuss the need of application of fertilizers in a crop field.
(c) Discuss multiple cropping and field fallowing.

12. Long answer type questions.
(a) What are the different methods employed for crop production ? Explain each of them in
detail.
(b) Write a brief note on:

(i) Kharif and Rabi crops (ii) Soil preparation
(iii) Sowing (iv) Fertilizers
(v) Irrigation (vi) Harvesting

(vii) Crop protection.

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