KONKAN EDUCATION SOCIETYK.E.S.S.P. JAIN JR. COLLEGE, NAGOTHANEFIRST TERM UNIT TEST 2020 2021STD. 11THSUB-ENGLISHMARKS 25OTREND re extract and complete the activities given below. (13)The next thing Moru Dada wanted to do was spray some pesticide on the plants. Heclaimed that it would give a higher yield. This was something we did not want to do. We werecles that we would not use any chemicals and tried to explain it to him. He reacted as if we hadsuggested harakin. It took a lot of convincing Densure thet Moru Dada and his friends did notuse any chemicals on the fam. They refused to understand how crops could grow withoutpraysContrary to what everyone had told us, nature did her job and she needed no bribes to getthe work done soco it was harvest time and we managed a respectable 300 kilograms. An awfullot of moong and with it a lot of confidence Now I was certain the land was fertile and that itwas possible to grow crops without chemicals. It was a major morale boosterThe Scent of RiceThe first year I was late for the rice sowing season and had to resort to growing the GR4variety fat was short term and recommended by the agricultural officers a Kosted. The nextyear we decided that we would start early and try to find some good traditional variety of rice toTOW. We had read about traditional varieties of rice and knew that they did not require veryhigh inputs of fertilizers These varieties vrede also quite strong and resisted posts. We were surethat it was his type of rice that would grow vell in all farm where we did not weavy chemicals22 Our previous year's experience and low yield had taught us a lesson and we were sure wewould not platt hybrids this yearIn April 2005, ve started to look for a good variety of traditional rice. It was one of ourneighbours in the village, a businessman from Mumbai who amed land, who suggested that weplant a local scented vaiety of rice. Most of the farmers in and around the village of Peth hadswitcřed over to hybrids. The younger generation of farmers thought I was cazy to ack for the'desi variety, as they called it My regular visits to the villages around searching for a goodtraditional variety also did not yield any results and we were almost giving up hope.A1. True or False(2)Rewrite the following statements and state whether they are true or fabe.1) Most of the farmes used hybrid variety in their farrn.2) The writer needed traditional variety of rice3) The land of the narrator was not fertile.4 The writer agreed to spray pesticides on the crop.​