Unit of Inquiry by jyoti makhijani

Unit 1: Where we are in place and time

jyoti_makhijani — 2017-08-11 14:18:40 UTC

Read the article and answer the following questions:
1. What are the reasons for losses in cultivable land?
2. Why is cultivable land shrinking?
3. How do you think can this problem be solved?

DHIREN 5A

sharanyamukund — 2017-08-12 13:20:56 UTC

Q1. One of the main loss of agricultural land is drought many farmers have suffered for the need of water for their crops as India's rainfall has come the past few years. Cultivable land are also lost for the construction of highways, buildings and factories.
Q2. The reason of why the cultivable land in India is shrinking is because of using that land for non agricultural purposes. When farmers have large families after 2-3 generations their land gets split up/fragmented, these small plots are not suitable for agriculture.
Q3. We as far as possible should allow factories and buildings to be only built on uncultivable land the space with good cultivable land should be reserved for agriculture.
As the population is growing and the cultivable land is shrinking we should grow more in limited amount of land by modern technology like drip irrigation, green houses, genetically modified food, etc.

answer to Q1

2017-08-12 13:36:41 UTC

by anusha 5A

One of the main reasons could be drought, as plants need a lot of water to grow and the rainfall amount has reduced drastically by 582 mm. Also, the trees in Bangalore have reduced due to construction, bringing less rainfall.
p.s : no help from mom or dad.

answer to Q3

2017-08-12 14:09:56 UTC

by anusha 5A

We can plant more trees, for trees bring rainfall and consume carbon dioxide, therefore giving us fresher air to breathe also. Another way could be renting out land to farmers, because if you don't do agriculture, then they might! and what is so wrong in land-leasing that Karnataka banned it?
p.s : no help from mom or dad.

answer to Q2

2017-08-12 14:36:45 UTC

by anusha 5A

It could be because all the land left by the migrating families won't be taken care of and the crops will die and the land might become barren and dry.
p.s : no help from mom or dad.

anushs

2017-08-12 14:43:23 UTC

anusha 5A

2017-08-12 14:43:24 UTC

topic: good night
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Bhagavathi 5B

2017-08-12 14:48:07 UTC

Ans to Q1- Few reasons for loss of cultivable land are- Less rainfall. Without rainfall farmers will not be able to grow their crops. Another reason for these losses are migration. People shift to cities for better jobs and more money. They shift to more profitable horticulture. People also migrate leaving their lands abandoned with no one to look after it.
Ans to Q2- Cultivable lands are shrinking because of less rainfall which leads to droughts.
Ans to Q3- The government can help poor farmers rent out lands so that people won't have to abandon their lands. We can also plant more trees which in turn will bring more rainfall. If we protect our lakes then we will have enough water for cultivable land and ground water will also increase.

Christina 5B

2017-08-13 04:57:50 UTC

Impact on Cultivable Land

Answer 1 - Loss of Cultivable Land is primarily due to drought which is due to less rainfall which in turn is due to trees being cut and environment being meddled with. It's kind of a chain reaction. The second important reason that we are losing our Cultivable lands is the migration of farmers and families to cities or other occupations.

Christina 5B

2017-08-13 05:04:52 UTC

Answer 2 - Cultivable Land is shrinking because the more the lands are left alone by farmers who migrate, the more those lands stay unused and finally builders and other people take that land and do something else with it like build buildings etc

Teiju 5A

2017-08-13 05:04:53 UTC

Q1 .Losses of cultivable land is based on four reasons and the reasons are rainfall,migration,non leasing of land and shifting to more profitable horticulture.

Christina 5B

2017-08-13 05:08:02 UTC

Answer 3 -
We can prevent this by taking simple steps like -
1. Plant trees
2. Water preservation
3. Giving farmers more benefits and support to stay in their profession

Teiju 5A

2017-08-13 05:16:47 UTC

Q2 . The cultivable land is reducing because rainfall is dipping and the islands are drought so the islands are shrinking.

Teiju 5A

2017-08-13 05:30:28 UTC

Q3:
Plant trees
reduce pollution to get more railfalls

Devanshi 5B

2017-08-13 06:35:52 UTC

Q1. What are the reasons for Losses in Cultivable Land?
Ans 1: Migration from cultivable land to cities and Drought.

Q2. Why is the cultivable land shrinking?
Ans 2 :It is shrinking because people are migrating and the lands are used for buildings.

Q3 How can this problem be solved?
Ans 3. The government should allow to l
Lease the farms , Plant trees and follow the 3 R's.

SAUL THE GREAT 5A

2017-08-13 06:52:05 UTC

ans 1 - lack of rainfall or fresh water for plants, over population of cattle eating up the grass, too stony or too wet land/soil, too much minerals or too less

SAUL 5A,

2017-08-13 06:57:17 UTC

ans 2, too many man made structures disturbing the area of farming,no water source,funds from government to improve irrigation,make land better ,protection from wind ETC.

SAUL 5A

2017-08-13 07:07:04 UTC

ANS 3 (ALL IN CAPS CUZ THIS IS THE LAST ANSWER!) WHENEVER SOMEONE BECOMES A FARMER THEIR FIELD SHOULD BE INSPECTED WHETHER THERE ARE ROCKS BELOW AND EXTRACT THEM! THERE SHOULD BE PROTECTION & THE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS A GOOD SUPPLY OF MINERALS AND ENOUGH WATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amisha 5b

2017-08-13 07:29:02 UTC

Ans 2- The reason why the land is shrinking is beacause they is no proper rainfall.

Akarsh 5B

daisyl — 2017-08-13 07:32:29 UTC

Ans 1- the loss is the rain is not coming at the right time beacause it's also to sunny and droughts are coming often

Amisha 5b

2017-08-13 07:37:27 UTC

Ans 3-You make cultivable land better by giving it proper crops and suplyes so there will be no drought any more .

Amisha 5b

2017-08-13 07:42:14 UTC

Ans 1-many farmers and plants are suffuring from drought and water ,because of no proper rainfall .

Akarsh 5B

daisyl — 2017-08-13 07:48:35 UTC

Ans 2-the cause of land shrinking is beacause of the over population of plants and farmers migrating

Akarsh 5b

daisyl — 2017-08-13 07:54:10 UTC

Ans 3-mabey the farmers should work more harder and stop migrating a lot.I think even the government can work on this and the farmers should take care of the plants so the plants won't over populate.

Thank you!

Arav 5A

2017-08-13 08:06:10 UTC

Q1 The reasons for losses in cultivalable land are because of less rainfall which gives results of draught , people migrating to cities , people changing from agriculture to horticulture and because of non leasing land.

Arav 5A

2017-08-13 08:18:10 UTC

Q3 this problem can be solved if people get paid the same amount of money in agriculture as well as horticulture , people should also get enough education , they should save every bit of water , get more technology to purify dirty water , give the cultivalable land that people waste to the farmers and use the resources in a smart way.

Surya V Srinivas 5B 13/8/2017

jyothilekshmivadivs — 2017-08-13 08:21:25 UTC

Ans: 1
The losses in cultivable lands are based on four reasons:
a) Rainfall:- There is no enough rainfall during the monsoon periods.
b) Migration:- Migration of people from rural ,urban regions for better job , bussiness and education.
c) Non leasing:-The migration family leaves the land instead of leasing this land to other farmers.
d) Shifting to more profitable horticulture:- The agriculture land have shifted to horticulture , considered high value crops.

Ans: 2
The cultivable land are shrinking because of very rainfalls which leads to drought.

Ans:3
(a) Plants more trees which will being more rainfalls.
(b) Save poor farmers, drip irrigation save our lake.
(c) No land leasing.
(d) No shifting.

Thank you.

Answers

2017-08-13 12:06:32 UTC

DANIEL 5B

2017-08-13 13:16:12 UTC

Ans 1-The reasons for losses in cultivable land are basically four.
1. Less rain
2. Migration of farmers from villages to cities and from agricultural activities to non-agricultural activities
3.the crop farming is not getting paid well so farmers are planting fruits and vegetables and flowers.

4.non leasing to other farmers

Ans 2 The cultivable land is shrinking because there is less rain ,means not enough water to grow crops.

Ans 3 To solve the problem we need to stop cutting trees and start planting forests.

We need to build dams, lakes and do rain water harvesting to recharge the ground water table. We have to adopt the 3R reduce , reuse and recycle water resources.

Suhani Jha 5B

sharadjha — 2017-08-13 13:32:53 UTC

A1.There are four reasons for our losses.One is a lack of rainfall,the second is the law about land leasing .But the more serious reasons (to me )are the facts that people are migrating more, and they are shifting to more profitable horticultures.

A2.The first and biggest reason is people migrating to urban areas,and shifting to non-agricultural jobs.Since they can't lease their land,the have to leave it
unattended ,which turns that particular part to grow over with weeds and other things like creepers.It is also due to the drought, which hardens and dries up cultivable land.

A3.I think that only one of the problems can be solved really easily.Lack of rainfall is a problem created by us so it's got to be solved by us. All we have to do is
plant more trees ,which will get us more rainfall. Unfortunately,that solution will take a few years,while we need it now.The second problem is more easy. What we
could do is just get the farmers to sell it ,since most people would probably be moving permanently. As for those who are going only for a while, well, they could
probably get a farm hand to stay and do it.Shifting horticulture is going to take some thinking. Maybe, instead of just leaving it alone, they could keep their crop
AND their other horticulture.Drought will pass in a few years, which again ,is a bit to late one.Well the trees would grow,which would provide more rain. so the drought would pass more quickly,or at least lessen a bit.

GAUTAM 5b

2017-08-13 13:39:45 UTC

A1:

3 years of successive drought caused limited supply of water which lead to less cultivable land and less crops being grown

A2:

Since water is not being used carefully the farmers are lacking water supply therefore their crops are not going to grow and because of this drought less cultivable land is being used but since the government banned leasing cultivable land the land is not being used therefore its shrinking.

A3:

The government should acknowledge that the farmers are the ones growing crops and grains and tell everybody to save water.

SHREYA 5A

2017-08-13 14:44:17 UTC

CULTIVABLE LAND
The main reason for loss of cultivation land is drought but this may not be permanent because you can prevent drought in many ways. There are many other reasons such as migration and non leasing of land which means that families who are migrating don't rent/give their land to the ones in need because of that a great amount of land is left just like that. Another reason is that most of the farmers are leaving agriculture and moving to horticulture because it is very profitable and doesn't need lots of investment in the land

PROBLEM SOLVING
Global warming takes a very big role in the happening of drought because global warming heats up the Earth. There won't even be a little rain that the whole area dries quickly. We can prevent global warming but following these ways:
·REDUCE,REUSE AND RECYCLE
·GO SOLAR
·GO GREEN
·EAT LESS MEAT
·CELEBRATE EARTH DAY
·PLANT TREES
·DOWNLOAD EARTH SAVING APPS
·SPREAD THE AWARNESS

USE WATER WISELY!
If you save water you can use the water in the drought. There are hundred of ways you can save water such as you have to turn of taps because if you leave a dripping tap one week you can waste up to 170 litres of water. Even in farms farmers try not to waste water. They make a pond made out of cement so whenever rain comes the pond collects lots of water and because it is made out of cement the ground doesn't absorb the water. This called rain water harvesting. Another thing is that farmers have discovered that if you just dump a bucket of water on the plant, the plant will absorb only 1/4 of it and the rest will just go to waste. Instead you can fix sprinklers or stoppers so that the plant will only take how much ever it wants.

Israel has invented all of these inventions for agriculture. It is so popular that the whole world is using it since the last decade. If you would have seen Israel in the 70's you could have thought that this was another country compared to now because it was very dry and you couldn't see a single tree. Now if see Israel is filled with flowers,trees,fruits etc.

THANK YOU FOR READING MY LONG H.W. BYE!!!:-)

Aditya 5A

saravanapriya_arun — 2017-08-13 14:47:07 UTC

A1 There are four reasons for losses in cultivable lands rainfall,migration, non-leasing of lands and shifting to more profitable horticulture.
A2 Cultivable lands shrink due to no rainfall.
A3 Plant more trees and
the government should permit leasing.

Joshua 5B

2017-08-13 15:08:42 UTC

Q.1 What are the reasons for losses in cultivable land?
A1. It's the rainfall which also led to a draught. The number of trees were decreasing day by day because trees need lot of water to survive.
Q2.Why is cultivable land shrinking?
A2.The land was shrinking because there was no rainfall.
Q3. How do you think can this problem be solved?
We should plant more trees, there should be less number of factories, no deforestion.....

The end......

Aditya Prabhu 5B

deepali_vb — 2017-08-13 15:33:59 UTC

Q. 1. What are the reasons for losses in cultivable land?
Ans : The reasons for losses in cultivable land are : Less rainfall, migration, non-leasing of lands and profitable horticulture.

Q. 2. Why is cultivable land shrinking?
Ans : Cultivable land is shrinking because there is no rain and people are cutting trees.

Q. 3. How do you think can this problem be solved?
Ans : The rainfall can be increased by planting trees and not cutting trees. People should not migrate. Government should help them and stop them from migrating.The land should be allowed to be leased.

Sai Samarth 5A

2017-08-13 15:42:47 UTC

A1. The loss of cultivable land is due to drought and very less rainfall. Due to this the farmers startgoing to places where they can get better jobs and more opportunities due to the natural problems caused.
A2. Cultivable land is shrinking because of less rain, drought and migration of farmers. Since the farmers are leaving and going to city's for job opportunities, the land is left uncultivated.
A3. I think we can solve this problem by planting trees and increasing the ground water so that the soil will become rich and the farmers will start planting. When there is rainfall, the land will start to absorb the water and at one point it will become fertile and healthy. Another solution is to build dams and lakes for storage of rainwater for better irrigation purpose.

saul 5a ans 1 (addition)

saulmadhujeet — 2017-08-13 16:41:13 UTC

soil erosion,too much chemical fertilizer, growing the same crop again & again on the same soil will remove the nutrients, + weeds

Nupur 5B

2017-08-13 16:46:29 UTC

Answers:

Q-1 What are the reasons of losses in cultivable land ?

The main reason is lack of rainfall. Farmers are using the farm land for horticulture as it is more profitable.

Q-2 Why is cultivable shrinking?

Exploiting farm land for multiple crops. Farmers are non-leasing the land for other farmers when they relocate. Drought also plays a major role.

Q-3 How do you think this problem can be solved?

Try to grow only one type of crop on one land. Try not to shift to horticulture. Do rain water harvesting. Allow leasing of farm land . Save plants and trees.

Jiya 5-B

2017-08-14 14:23:28 UTC

Q&A

Q1.Why are cultivable lands shrinking?
A1. Drougth is making farmers to migrate and not leasing their lands which the government uses for buldings factory etc.

Q2.What are the reasons for losses in cultivable land?...
A2. EG: Drought,not- leasing, migration,government needs & cutting trees.

Q3.How do you think this problem can be solved?....
A3.you can solve this problem by stop cutting trees, not relesing toxic air & try filter ocean water and use it to the crops.

#loveJiya!!!!!!!

Kashvi 5A

2017-08-15 04:02:13 UTC

Q-1 What are the reasons of losses in cultivable land?
A-1 The major reason that is taking part is the drought.
There is very less water and crops are not growing. So farmers are starting horticulture because it is more profitable.

Q-2 Why is cultivable land shrinking?
Farmers are migrating because of the drought and the government are using the land to build buildings, factories, hazards, houses, etc...

Q-3 How do you think think this problem can be solved?
government, farmers and us, we should all plant many trees and try not to cut them.
Government should understand the problem.
And try not to start horticulture.
Save the nature!!!

THANK YOU!
HAVE A NICE DAY!!!

Zanna 5A

2017-08-15 04:03:56 UTC

Q.1 When there is less rainfall crops can't grow. So farmers are using the land for horticulture for it is more profitable that way.

Q.2 Drought, migration and cutting down trees for government needs. The government might need it for buildings, factories etc.

Q.3 Government should understand the problem and try to plant double the amount of trees they cut. (For trees need credit for they are living things just like us !!!

THANK YOU !!!
AND HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY !!!

Harsrith

harsrith99 — 2017-08-15 12:21:12 UTC

Q.1 The reason why cultivable lands are shrinking is because of less rainfall which is causing droughts that are preventing crops to grow

Q.2 Because the crops are not growing farmers are migrating the cultivable lands are shrinking.

Q.3 I think the government should transfer the rain water from places it falls heavily because then the water will be sufficient to both the places and they should plant more trees instead of cutting them because if they cut the trees the cultivable land will lack oxygen which will also cause the crops to die.

Thank you.

Aarav Chopra 5A

2017-08-15 14:36:27 UTC

Ans-1
The main reason of loss in cultivable land is because of serious drought.

Ans-2
The cultivable land is shrinking because of less rainfall, non-leasing land and people migrating from agricultural to non-agricultural activities.

Ans-3
I think that the goverment should grow more trees and should give more land to the farmers to grow some crops.

Shriyaa Sohni 5A

2017-08-15 15:12:47 UTC

Q1. Loss of cultivatable land can be caused by loss of fertility and water scarcity.

Q2. Cultivatable land is shrinking because some farmers use chemicals to put into the soil which weakens the soil and destroys the natural minerals. It also be because of rain loss.

Q3. I think this can be solved by making sure that farmers don't use chemicals for the soil and also by saving water in case of rain loss.

Happy independence day, everyone!

2017-08-16 12:31:54 UTC

2017-08-16 12:32:11 UTC

Manit 5A

2017-08-16 12:32:25 UTC

Ans-1
The loss of cultivable land are based on four reasons, rainfall, migration,non-leasing land and better lifestyle

Ans-2
Farmers are selling their land of high price due to high labour cost and loss due to natural calamities and slow response from the government.

Ans-3
lncrease produce by mordern technology .Financial aid by govt and banks. Compensate farmers
during crop failure and natural disaster.

2017-08-17 13:54:25 UTC