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Read the story of Rinjha… (Social Science 2025 32/1/1 Q26)

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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2025, set 32/1/1 · 3 marks · Short answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2025: question 26

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2025, paper 32/1/1, section C, question 26, for 3 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q26 · 3 marks · Short answerCompetency-basedAgriculture

Read the story of Rinjha and answer the question that follows :

Story of Rinjha

Rinjha lived with her family in a small village at the outskirts of Diphu in Assam. She enjoys watching her family members clearing, slashing and burning a patch of land for cultivation. She often helps them in irrigating the fields with water running through a bamboo canal from the nearby spring. She loves the surroundings and wants to stay here as long as she can, but this little girl has no idea about the declining fertility of the soil and her family's search for a fresh patch of land in the next season.

What type of farming is Rinjha's family doing ? Describe any two of its characteristics. (1+2=3)

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2025 board paper, set 32/1/1.

Hints

Open one hint at a time and try again before the next.

Hint 1

Clearing, slashing and burning a patch is a clue to the type.

Hint 2

Think about tools, labour and what the farming depends on.

Step-by-step solution

Each step shows the marks it earns, as an examiner would award them. Checked by an independent re-solve from the question paper.

  1. Rinjha's family practises primitive subsistence farming, also called slash and burn or shifting cultivation.

    1 mark

  2. It is done on small patches of land with primitive tools such as the hoe, dao and digging sticks, using family or community labour.

    1 mark

  3. It depends on the monsoon, the natural fertility of the soil and other environmental conditions. When fertility declines, the farmers shift to a fresh patch.

    1 mark

Answer: Primitive subsistence farming (slash and burn): small plots, primitive tools and family labour, dependent on monsoon and natural soil fertility.

Where the marks are

  • Type identified: primitive subsistence farming (1 mark)
  • First characteristic (1 mark)
  • Second characteristic (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

  • Chapter: Agriculture (notes, formulas, where marks are lost and every past question)
Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from Agriculture, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paper2025 board paper, set 32/1/1: every question, by section.

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