Question

Give geographical reasons for the following:
i. Regular pruning is essential for tea bushes.
ii. Coffee beans are roasted
iii. Millets are known as dry crops

Answer 1

i. Pruning is the method when the branches of tea bush are cut off. This method encourages the growth of new shoots with softer leaves and to keep the plant about 1.2 m high, so that the leaves can be picked up easily.

ii. Coffee beans are roasted because It gets its characteristic flavour only after roasting. Roasting gives it a brown colour and pleasant taste.

iii. Millets are known as dry crops because these are hardy, drought and heat resistant plants which can survive in regions with less rainfall and poor or inferior soil.