Given below is a conversation between two farmers Heera and Beera.
Heera: Brother Beera, your maize crops looks beautiful! They have grown pretty fast.
Beera: Yes, I have sprayed urea this time. What about you?
Heera: Well, I am still relying on good old cow dung. I am saving money for buying a tractor.
Beera: That’s good. Tractor saves a lot of time and labour.
Heera: Yes, it’s been very labour intensive for me and now these weeds have come up.
Beera: Try weedicides, they are very effective.
Now answer the following questions.
(i) List the practices which are not environment friendly and why?
(ii) What is the advantage of modern agriculture implements over traditional ones?
(iii) Name one weedicide and the precaution farmers must take during its application.
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(i) Use of fertilisers and weedicides are hazardous to environment. Tractor causes air pollution.
(ii) Modern agricultural implements saves on both time and labour as compared to traditional equipments.
(iii) An example of a weedicide is 2, 4–D. Farmers should cover their mouth and nose while spraying weedicides as they can cause health hazards.
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