And wider than it looks
Older than almost anything
Farming is among humankind oldest occupations, and the word covers a great deal.
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The Story of Indian Farming · Class 7 Social Science · Exploring Society
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What agriculture takes in
Four things at once
Broadly the word covers farming, animal husbandry, forestry and horticulture.
A field, tended
Where the word comes from
It is Latin. Agri meant a field and culture meant to cultivate.
Xuanzang, 7th century
A traveller noticed first
A Chinese pilgrim travelling India set down something sharp about the land.
All inside one country
Seven climates
Alpine in the Himalayas, temperate in the lower Himalayas, subtropical over the northern plains.
Three things at once
What differs between them
Each gets a different amount of sunshine and rain.
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1
What Indian farming covers, and how far back it goes
Agriculture takes in farming, livestock, forestry and horticulture, and gives work to about 46 per cent of India workers. Over 75 per cent of rural agricultural workers are women. Rice was in the Ganga Plain nine thousan…
- Farming is among the oldest occupations, covering soil preparation, growing plants, rearing livestock and often growing trees as one system.
- Broadly, agriculture takes in farming, animal husbandry, forestry and horticulture, and some farmers also rear fish or silk cocoons.
- The word is Latin: agri meant a field and culture meant to cultivate.
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Climate, the monsoons, and the three cropping seasons
India has seven climate types and fifteen agroclimatic zones, so what grows where differs sharply. The southwest monsoon waters kharif crops and the northeast monsoon the east and south. Kharif, rabi and zaid stagger the…
- Xuanzang, a Chinese pilgrim of the seventh century, noticed that differing climate and soil gave differing produce.
- India has seven climate types: alpine, temperate, subtropical, arid, tropical wet, semi-arid and tropical.
- Fifteen agroclimatic zones combine climate, soil, terrain and vegetation, and help plan what to grow and when.
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Soil, and how farmers look after it
Soil is a thin layer on the crust of the Earth, built from broken rock and rotted matter over a century to several millennia. India has six major types, and each soil fertility follows from what made it. Conservation ran…
- Soil is a thin layer on the crust of the Earth, holding plant life, made from broken rock and decayed organic matter.
- It forms in stages, from bedrock breaking apart to a developed soil holding thick vegetation, over a century to several millennia.
- Weathering breaks rocks into soil particles; bedrock is the original rock; silt is fine sediment between clay and sand in size.
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Water, and seeds
Rain-fed farming waits on the monsoon while irrigation supplies water when the crop wants it. India has built water structures since the Indus civilisation, with ten names for them. Seed was once saved and shared, and bo…
- Water is a basic resource for farming, and how much a place has decides how farming is done there.
- Rain-fed farming leans on rainfall alone, and faces droughts and monsoons that cannot be predicted.
- Its adaptations include choosing drought-resistant crops and using traditional water-harvesting techniques.
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Traditional wisdom, modern innovation, and what farmers face
Traditional farming treats soil and plant as one system, and ICAR found over 85 per cent of the practices it tested stood up to science. The Green Revolution fed the country and damaged the soil. Shrinking holdings and c…
- Traditional farming treats the plant and the whole soil ecosystem as one system, with organisms making nutrients available and plants feedin…
- Terrace farming cuts steps into a hillside, which stops soil washing away and holds water back.
- Kulagar is Konkani homestead farming, from kula meaning family and agar meaning storehouse, common in the Konkan Plains of Goa.
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175 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
Counted as one of humankind oldest occupations, and covering soil, plants and livestock at once, is
Beginner
A trading
B weaving
C farming
D mining
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farming
Often trees as well.
Named among the four things agriculture broadly takes in, besides farming, forestry and horticulture, is animal
Intermediate
A medicine
B transport
C breeding for show
D husbandry
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husbandry
The raising of livestock.
Some farmers keep more than crops and animals; the chapter names the rearing of fish as one such activity. Practised alongside their crops is
Intermediate
A pisciculture
B apiculture
C horticulture
D floriculture
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pisciculture
Others rear silk cocoons.
The word agriculture is Latin, and its first half named the ground itself. Meaning a field is
Advanced
A culture
B agri
C humus
D terra
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agri
Culture meant to cultivate.
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