Question

In Dhanus village, there can be no farming when there is no rain. Do you think farming can be done even without rainwater? How?

Answer 1

Hint: Farming is the process of working on the ground, like planting the seeds, and cultivating the crops, where they require water for farming, natural water generally people use for farming is rainwater.

Complete answer:
- Yes, Farming can be done even without rainwater, because there are so many resources for water to use for farming.
- Some of the methods for getting water source, other than rainwater are wells, tube wells, lifting the water with wheels, etc.
- Well, tube well irrigation is the most popular irrigation in India, where these methods also played a role in the success of the green revolution.
- So when it comes to types of wells, those include the dug well, which is the most common type of irrigation seen in India.
- In dug well, it is dug to the ground, where the bottom of the dug is below the depth of floor water level, so the surrounding water may acquire in dug and it can be used.
- Shallow tube well here the well is dug to the depth of 30m like up to the level of the aquifer, in this type, along with dug, a tube well is placed so this can be called a dug- shallow tube well.
- Others include the medium and deep tube wells, whereas in the medium tube well, it is up to 40 m, and in deep tube wells, dug up to 45 to 300m based on the availability of the aquifer.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B).

Note: As we know that there are a lot of variations of monsoon and rainfall in India, so it is very important for irrigation, in India common irrigation methods include the canals, wells, and tube wells and tanks.