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Social Science · 2025 · 3 marks
CBSE 2025 · Region 1 · Set 1 · Q26
Read the story of Rinjha and answer the question that follows: Story of Rinjha Rinjha lived with her family in a small village at the outskirts of…
Read the story of Rinjha and answer the question that follows : Story of Rinjha Rinjha lived with her family in a small village at the outskirts of Diphu in Assam. She enjoys watching her family members clearing, slashing and burning a patch of land for cultivation. She often helps them in irrigating the fields with water running through a bamboo canal from the nearby spring. She loves the surroundings and wants to stay here as long as she can, but this little girl has no idea about the declining fertility of the soil and her family's search for a fresh patch of land in the next season. What type of farming is Rinjha's family doing ? Describe any two of its characteristics.
Marking-scheme solution
(i) This farming is practiced on small patches of land.
(ii) It is done with the help of primitive tools like hoe, dao and digging sticks.
(iii) It is done with the help of family or community labour.
(iv) This type of farming depends upon monsoon, natural fertility of the soil and suitability of other environmental conditions to the crops grown.
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