Geography
Farmers narrate the story of what years of intensive commercial cultivation and over-extraction of nutrients by unsuitable crops has done to their natural resource base. Around 25 years ago, their farm soil was teeming with life — from earthworms to beetles. Now there are no signs of life. The farmers belong to which state?
- Bihar
- Kerala
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
Indian Agriculture Introduction
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Punjab
Reason — In Punjab, the pumping of groundwater to grow water-intensive crops like rice, together with years of intensive commercial cultivation, has caused land degradation and loss of soil fertility.
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