Question

Give a geographical reason for each of the following:
(i) Cotton is a labour intensive crop.
(ii) Jute is retted after it has been harvested.
(iii) The growing of pulses is important in India.

Answer 1

• Handpicking of cotton balls will help the plant to grow and it has a good effect on the yield.
• Cotton is a labour-intensive crop due to its difficult processes like hand picking of cotton balls and picking the seeds from the cotton balls.
  
• Although the automation machinery introduced in certain areas, the cotton crop has extensive manual labour at work even today.
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• Retting is a process in which the tied bundles of jute stalks are taken to the tank by which fibers get loosened and separated from the woody stalk.
• After retting is complete, the bark is peeled from the plant and fiber is removed.
• Fibre must be extracted as quickly as possible otherwise the quality will suffer.
  
• The growing of pulses is important in India to overcome nutrition insecurity, improve soil fertility by nitrogen fixation and provide income support to farmers.