Question

Patella is used for
(a) Sowing
(b) Leveling
(c) Earthing
(d) Wedding

Answer 1

Hint: Harrows used in agriculture before planting or sowing the seeds for preparing the agricultural land by making the agricultural surface even without any weeds.

Complete answer:
Patela harrow is a wooden plank used for smoothing the soil and crushing the weeds. It is also used for leveling and packing the plowed soil. The two major parts of the patela harrow are the cutting edge and the curved hooks. The cutting edge is used to level and pack the soil and curved hooks are used for uprooting and collecting the weeds. It is an animal dawn version because it is dawn by animals. Patela comes under a secondary tillage instrument.

Additional Information:
- Patella is made up of wooden planks with a number of holes made up of steel and is botted to a steel angle.
- Tillage operations performing primary tillage are performed to create a proper soil for planting and seeding
- Secondary tillage implements may be drawn by tractor or bullock is drawn
- Harrow is a secondary tillage implement. It cuts the soil to a shallow depth for smoothing and pulverization of soil.
- There are several types of harrows in India namely disc harrow, spike tooth harrow, patela, bade harrow, triangular harrow.
So, the correct answer is ‘leveling’.

Note: Disc harrows, tine harrows which include spring-tooth harrows, drag harrows, and spike harrows; chain harrows, and chain-disk harrows are the four types of harrows found generally.
Animals such as horses, oxen, bulls, etc, generally draw harrows and in modern times harrows are replaced with tractors and other instruments which reduces manpower and works at a faster rate without the use of animals and much labor work.