Question

Farmers narrate the story of what years of intensive commercial cultivation and over-extraction of nutrients by unsuitable crops has done to their natural resource base. Around 25 years ago, their farm soil was teeming with life - from earthworms to beetles. Now there are no signs of life. farmers belong to which state?

Options

• Bihar

• Uttar Pradesh

• Punjab

• Rajasthan

Answer 1

Punjab

Explanation:

Intensive commercial cultivation and nutrient depletion leading to soil degradation is a well-known issue in Punjab due to the Green Revolution’s long-term impact in that state, as referred in the document.