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Giving water to plants is called irrigation.
Crops are irrigated at proper time.
Pesticides are used
to kill the pests. What are pests
and pesticides?
Locusts, grasshoppers, insects, birds, The organisms which harm the crops
rats, caterpillars, etc. are the common are called pests. Pesticides are the
pests that harm our crops. chemicals used to kill pests.
Ma'am, what is that?
That is a scarecrow. Farmers use it to
scare birds away from their crop fields. After harvesting the crop, grains are
Farmers also do fencing of agriculture kept safe in granaries and gunny bags.
farm to keep away grazing animals like Grains are also kept safe in airtight,
cows, goats, etc. sealed containers called silos.
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