Follow a field from ploughing to crop, and know why weeds are pulled out of it.
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Arrange the steps of growing a crop as the chapter describes them
Drag the steps into the correct chronological order to show how farmers grow crops.
What cultivated plants are, and why farmers pull out weeds
One day, Mona visited a village and saw some farmers uprooting small plants from their fields. Curious, she asked her father why they were doing so.
The chapter's photograph of weeds growing among crop plants
Undesirable plants that grow naturally alongside cultivated crops and compete with them.
Three questions on cultivated plants and weeds
Which of the following are unwanted plants that grow alongside cultivated crops?
How a farmer prepares a field, sows seeds, waters it and weeds it
Farmers first prepare their fields to sow the seeds. For this, they first dig the soil, loosen it and make it soft. This important process is called ploughing.
The chapter's photograph of a farmer ploughing a field with bullocks
Ploughing of fields loosens the soil before seeds are planted.