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Read the story of Rinjha… (Social Science 2025 32/2/1 Q26)

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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2025, set 32/2/1 · 3 marks · Short answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2025: question 26

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2025, paper 32/2/1, 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.

Suggest any three measures to Rinjha so that the fertility of the soil of her fields remains intact for a long time.

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2025 board paper, set 32/2/1.

Hints

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

Hint 1

How can soil nutrients be replaced naturally?

Hint 2

Think of what farmers can do besides shifting to new land.

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. Practise crop rotation, growing different crops in turn so that the soil's nutrients are not exhausted.

    1 mark

  2. Use manure, which returns nutrients to the soil, instead of repeated slash-and-burn shifting.

    1 mark

  3. Grow leguminous crops, which fix nitrogen, and manage pests and plant diseases to protect the soil and crops.

    1 mark

Answer: Crop rotation, use of manure and growing leguminous crops (or pest management).

Where the marks are

  • Crop rotation (1 mark)
  • Use of manure (1 mark)
  • Leguminous crops or pest and disease management (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 32/2/1: every question, by section.

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