Maharashtra Board Class 11 English Solution Chapter 1.3 – The Call of The Soil- The Scent Of Rice
Balbharati Maharashtra Board Class 11 English Solution Chapter 1.3: The Call of The Soil- The Scent Of Rice. Marathi or English Medium Students of Class 11 get here The Call of The Soil- The Scent Of Rice full Exercise Solution.
Std |
Maharashtra Class 11 |
Subject |
English Yuvakbharati Solution |
Chapter |
1.3 |
Chapter Name |
The Call of The Soil- The Scent Of Rice |
The Call of The Soil- The Scent Of Rice
Q.) Discuss the following with your partner and complete the following sentences. One is done for you.
Ans. (a) Before eating apples brought from the market, I wash and peel them off.
(b) In a farmers’ market, we find freshly grown and organic vegetables.
(c) Food adulteration means an act of spoiling the nature and quality of the original food items.
(d) Organic food is grown by using cover crops, green manures, animal manures and crop rotations to fertilize the soil.
(e) Organic fertilizer means the fertilizers that are naturally produced and contain carbon.
Q.) Complete the following web diagram:
Ans.
Q.) You might have learnt about organic farming. Make groups and discuss the difference between conventional farming and organic farming and write it down.
Ans.
S. No | Conventional Farming | Organic Farming |
1. | It helps to produce higher rate of crops for the farmer as less crops are prone to damage because of natural use. | It is better for the environment than any other form of farming. |
2. | Involves application of chemicals to the farmlands which help to reduce pests, thus leading to better growth of crops. The plants also need more water as chemicals are used. | It involves ways which reduces pollution, conserve water, increase the fertility of the soil, and conserves energy. |
3. | This farming system includes the use of synthetic chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides etc. | Pesticides are not used which is also good for birds and animals living in the farms or near to it as well as the farmers. |
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
Q.) Guess the meaning of the word ‘lush’ in this context.
Ans. Vegetation like crops, grass growing luxuriantly and abundantly.
Q.) Find words related to agriculture.
Ans. Farming.
Q.) The writer disagreed with Moru Dada because
Ans. Moru Dada wanted to do was spray some pesticide on the plants and the writer was against chemical pesticides to be used on plants.
Q.) The writer wanted to grow the traditional variety of rice because
Ans. They knew that they did not require very high inputs of fertilizers to grow the traditional variety of rice. These varieties were also quite strong and resisted pests. They were sure that it was this type of rice that would grow well in their farm where they did not use any chemicals at all.
Q.) The writer almost gave up hope of finding the desi variety of rice because
Ans. Some of the farmers and businessmen used to plant a local scented variety of rice and most of the farmers in and around the village of Peth had switched over to hybrids.
Q.) Mention the varieties of rice from the passage.
Ans. 1) Kasbai 2) Basmati
Q.) List ways in which the Government officer cooperated with the author?
Ans. a) The government official incharge, then, had a better knowledge than any other villager and he helped him out regarding the variety of rice (kasabai) being sold few years back.
b) They also helped the writer with the names of the latest varieties of the hybrid rice grown in the village.
Q.) Find synonyms for ‘insipid’.
Ans. Tasteless.
BRAINSTORMING
(A1) (i) Read the extract and state whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the false statements.
(a) Growing in abundance is more important than the quality of the crop. False
Ans. Growing good quality crop is more important.
(b) The author wanted to grow the desi variety of rice.
Ans. True
(c) The author did not succeed in finding Kasbai.False
Ans. The author succeeded in finding Kasabai in Asarvari village.
(d) The aroma of the ‘desi’ rice would spread around the village.
Ans. True
(e) Newer hybrid crops have a great appetite for chemicals.
Ans. True
(f) The author is an example of ‘reverse migration’.
Ans. True
(ii) Complete the flow chart. Consider this to be an example of Note-Making.
Ans. Discovery of Kasabai Rice
(iii) Read the text and fill in the blanks. One is done for you.
(a) The author wanted to grow organic moong.
(b) Moru Dada wanted to spraypesticides on the moong crop.
(c) Baban’s father and some elders mentioned the name of Kasabai rice.
(d) “Hybrids need morewater, fertilizers and pesticides ”, said DevuHanda.
(e) The author bought ten kilosof rice from an Adivasi woman who lived in remote hills.
(A2) (i) List the reactions of the agricultural officer to the author’s inquiry about Kasbai rice seeds. One is done for you.
Ans. (a) He had not heard of Kasbai.
(b) He said there was no rice bythis name. He rattled off the names of a number of latest hybrids.
(c) He even offered to give the author some of them free of cost for a trial.
ii) Go through the text once again and note down DevuHanda’s fond memories of Kasbai in your exercise book. One is done for you. DevuHanda has fond memories of Kasbai. They are as follows.
(a)It needs………………….Rain
(b) It has an alluring aroma.
(c) Heady aroma used to hang in the air as all the houses cooked the same rice.
(A3) (i) The writer says he grew ‘an awful lot of moong’. Explain the word ‘awful’ in this sentence.
Ans. Moru Dada, one of the villager companion of the writer wanted to spray pesticide over the moong crops but the writer opposed it. He didn’t want to grow his crop using chemicals and pesticides instead wanted to grow them organically and naturally. As the soil was void of any kind of pesticide and chemicals, it was very fertile and they got high yield of moong. This was the reason writer told that ‘he grew an awful lot of moong.’
(ii) The word scent is different from its synonyms ‘aroma’, ‘fragrance’ or ‘perfume’. Explain how the word ‘scent’ in the subtitle ‘Scent of the Rice’, has a deeper meaning than ‘perfume’ or ‘fragrance’. Tick phrases having a similar meaning from the following:
(a) In pursuit of
(b) To smell a rat
(c) To be keen
(d) On the trail of
(e) To feel under the weather
Ans. In pusuit of &On the trail of.
(ii) Prepare a list of subordinating conjunctions:
Ans. and, then, that, which, those, who, but etc.
(A5) (i) Planting and growing more crops a year seems to be progress by normal standards; but the chapter makes a case against it. Give reasons.
Ans. According to normal standards, growing more crops a year is actually progressive but the chapter makes a case against it because, these days the farmers try to grow hybrid crops which do not need any particular season or climate to grow, with just the help of chemicals and thus we are buying adulterated food items and vegetables from the market. Instead of progressing towards healthy eating and healthy living, we are moving towards illnesses and poor health with pesticide infested products and artificially grown agricultural fruits, vegetables and crops which is actually leading to health risks, especially among children.
(ii) The writer goes in search of an invaluable indigenous variety of seeds. List three reasons for the importance of keeping records of our indigenous agricultural practices.
Ans. The reasons for the importance of keeping records of our indigenous agricultural practices are-
(a) So that we can compare traditional farming practices with the conventional farming.
(b) To keep a ckeck on the fertility of the land in both types of farming.
(c) To keep a track record of how traditional farming is better without using much of modern techniques and pests and chemicals.
(iii) Write a short paragraph in about 120 words, to be used as Counter-View for the following topic. ‘Buy a bigger cloth for your coat’. View Section:
(a) We cannot survive by the dictum ‘Cut your coat according to your cloth’ in today’s world.
(b) In the mordern world we should ‘Think Big’.
(c) Think of increasing your income instead of reducing your needs.
(d) We connot deny ourselves, what the new world offers us
Ans. We should always wear what fits our size, neither big, nor smaller. To think big is the need of the hour, and to put into work our own thought process and what we feel is right, instead of walking into the shoes of others. To think big doesn’t just mean to live an extravagant life. Thinking big in today’s world means thinking out of the box and trying to be helpful in saving resources and trying to be helpful in some positive way for the future generations. The upcoming generation is full of new ideas and has a lot to offer, but we should know the fine line of difference between need and greed.
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