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प्रश्न
The seeds were not sure that what Hasmukh was talking about was really progress. What do you feel?
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उत्तर
I think the seeds were correct in their thinking. A new method of agriculture tends to overexploit the soil and other resources. This leads to loss of fertility of the soil which may result in the land becoming barren. Too much irrigation depletes the groundwater and thus leaves little water for the future. A machine can do the work of many people which leaves many people jobless.
Apparently, it looks like progress, but it is not real progress.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Have you eaten roti made from bajra or jowar? Did you like these?
Talk to the elders in your family and find out if there were some special foods cooked earlier that are not cooked anymore?
The bajra seed saw differences in the way Damjibhai and Hasmukh did farming (for example, in irrigation, ploughing, etc). What were these differences?
Damjibhai’s son Hasmukh chose to become a farmer like his father. Hasmukh’s son Paresh is not a farmer, but a truck driver. Why would he have done so?
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?
Visit a farm near your area. Observe and talk to the people there. Write a report.
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 technology could have been used to cut the stem in picture 1?
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.
