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Observe the picture and answer:i. What all do you see in the picture?ii. Why has the family kept goats and hens?iii. Which implements are seen in the picture?iv. How are these implements used?v. In which major occupation type will the activities shown here be included?vi. What could be the main occupation of these people?vii. Who could be the owner of the house?viii. Which products shown in the above picture do you use?

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i. A farmer’s house, a farmer keeps cows, hens, sheep, goats and cattle, a standing crop, a plough share, farmers wife grazing the cattle.

ii. Farmer gets milk from goats and eggs from the hens.

iii. The spade and plough are seen in the picture.

iv. Spade is a hand tool used to dig or loosen ground or break lumps in the soil. A plough is used for ploughing the fields. Ploughing turns organic matter into soil to increase decomposition and add nutrients from organic matter to the soil.

v. The activities shown in the picture mostly fall under the occupation of agriculture.

vi. The main occupation of these people could be cultivation of crops.

vii. The farmer himself could be the owner of the house.

viii. Milk and dairy products, eggs are used in our day to day lives.



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