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प्रश्न
In your house what is done to protect grains and pulses from insects?
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उत्तर
My mother keeps grains and pulses in air-tight containers. Sometimes, she dries them in the sun.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Talk to the elders in your family and find out if there were some special foods cooked earlier that are not cooked anymore?
Find out about the crops - cereals, vegetables, pulses - that are grown in your area. Of those, is there anything that is famous across the country?
Hasmukh said, “With profits from our fields, we can progress.” What is your understanding of ‘progress’?
The seeds were not sure that what Hasmukh was talking about was really progress. What do you feel?
Have there been any changes near your area, which may be difficult to call ‘progress’? What changes are these? What are the different opinions about them?
What questions come to your mind about farmers and farming? Write some questions in your group and ask a farmer. For example, how many crops do they grow in a year? Which crop needs how much water?
There have been many changes over time, in our food. What can this mean? Use the seed story and what you know from your elders to explain.
What would happen if all the farmers were to use only one kind of seed and grow only one kind of crop?
What do you think is being done in the grinder (chakki) in picture 4?
What ways (technologies) would have been used to do the work shown in pictures 5 and 6? You can see that the dough is ready in picture 6. When do you think a sieve (chhalni) would have been used? Discuss each step in detail, in any language you wish to use.
