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Home Science

Traditional occupations in India - Agriculture

This topic introduces agriculture as one of India’s traditional occupations and places it within the broader study of work, livelihood and career in Class 11 Home Science. Students explore how farming supports families and communities, the knowledge and skills it requires, and its links with food, natural resources and rural life. They also consider how technology, markets, education and changing work opportunities influence agricultural livelihoods, helping them view agriculture as both a cultural tradition and an evolving area of work.

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  1. Transfer of generational knowledge and family-based skills
  2. Use of only modern machines
  3. Availability of high wages in cities
  4. Complete dependence on imports
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  1. Doubling the area under the same crop
  2. Adding crop diversification and animal husbandry
  3. Stopping storage completely
  4. Avoiding soil testing
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  1. Because women do no farm work
  2. Because their labour is mixed with household duties and not recorded as separate wages
  3. Because agriculture is only men's occupation
  4. Because women only sell in markets
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  1. When local experience is combined with soil testing and weather information
  2. When all old methods are blindly abandoned
  3. When fertiliser is applied only by guesswork
  4. When crop rotation is ignored
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  1. Farm work is equally available throughout the year
  2. Labour demand is higher during stages like sowing and harvesting
  3. Weather has no effect on agriculture
  4. Family members never work in agriculture
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  1. When everyone works but extra labour does not significantly increase output
  2. When only one person works and output rises
  3. When wage rate is very high
  4. When the field is completely unused
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  1. Commercial export farming
  2. Subsistence farming
  3. Contract processing
  4. Urban service work
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  1. It helps maintain soil fertility and break pest or disease cycles
  2. It requires sowing the same crop every season
  3. It eliminates the need for livestock
  4. It makes seed conservation impossible
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  1. It can provide manure, milk and additional income
  2. It always stops crop production
  3. It keeps the family away from food
  4. It makes water conservation impossible
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  1. Reducing dependence on new expensive seeds every season
  2. Immediately removing soil moisture
  3. Eliminating all local varieties
  4. Preventing harvest
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  1. Adopting drought-tolerant crops and water-conservation practices
  2. Always ignoring sowing date
  3. Closing drainage arrangements
  4. Storing before harvesting
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  1. Cleaning wheat, converting it into flour and packing it
  2. Letting ripe grain spoil in the open
  3. Selling seed without sorting
  4. Breaking irrigation tools
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  1. Proper drying, cleaning and safe storage
  2. Packing wet grain in closed sacks
  3. Increasing moisture in the storehouse
  4. Completely ignoring pest control
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  1. When learning is light, age-appropriate and does not disturb education
  2. When children do heavy work all day
  3. When schooling is stopped
  4. When risky tools are used alone
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  1. Tasks may vary according to age, gender, skill and season
  2. Every person always does only one task
  3. Gender-based inequality never occurs
  4. Agriculture requires no skill
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  1. It improves soil structure and adds nutrients and humus
  2. It increases fertility by destroying all soil microorganisms
  3. It completely eliminates the need for irrigation in crops
  4. It provides only quick nutrients like chemical fertilizers and does not improve soil quality
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  1. Letting the crop spoil immediately
  2. Using group-based marketing and storage facilities
  3. Stopping measurement
  4. Reducing crop quality
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  1. Supporting collective savings, credit and small enterprises
  2. Destroying cultivable land
  3. Separating families from markets
  4. Blocking production knowledge
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  1. High input cost, uncertain yield and weak market bargaining
  2. Free irrigation and fixed income
  3. Completely risk-free production
  4. Same price for every crop
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  1. Income depends on land ownership and the terms of sharing output
  2. The farmer always owns the entire produce
  3. There is no risk in farming
  4. Labour requirement ends
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  1. It can strengthen community cooperation and resource equity
  2. It always increases conflict only
  3. It separates fields from water
  4. It stops labour while being unrelated to seed selection
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  1. They may offer low cost, local repair and usefulness on small farms
  2. They always give more output than modern tools
  3. They need no skill
  4. They always damage soil
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  1. It can save labour but increase capital cost and rental dependence
  2. It gives every farmer machines without cost
  3. It eliminates the market
  4. It always reduces family income
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  1. To provide farmers useful technical, market and management information
  2. To keep farmers away from information
  3. To stop soil testing
  4. To eliminate family labour
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  1. Adding entrepreneurship, technology, processing and market skills to farming
  2. Calling farming skills unimportant
  3. Giving loans without training to all youth
  4. Leaving quality and planning

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