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IV. Answer the following questions in two or three sentences.

1. Define cultivation. Why do farmers cultivate their fields?

2. What is harvesting?

3. Who are retailers?

4. What is the Midday Meal Scheme?

5. Write any two healthy eating habits that we practice.

V. Answer the following questions in three to six sentences.

1. Describe how food reaches our table from the farm.

2. Why should we preserve food?

3. Write about any two methods of food preservation.

4. Write about the Public Distribution System.

5. How can we avoid wastage of food?

Let’s Communicate

Name some spices and tell whether you recognize them by their taste or by their
smell.

H TS Critical Thinking

Why do farmers add manure and fertilizers to their farms?

Know More

Farmers place scarecrows in their fields after sowing seeds. They

think that the scarecrows frighten the birds and drive them away
from their fields, preventing them from eating away the seeds.
Scarecrows are usually made of sticks. They look like human beings

and are dressed in old clothes.

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