Harvesting
Harvesting: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Combine Harvester, Sickle, Crop Harvesting, Threshing, Winnowing, Separation of Grain and Chaff & Harvest Festivals etc.
Important Questions on Harvesting
The process of removing chaff from grains with the help of wind is called threshing.
How has combine harvest made the work easier?
How were grains separated from husk in earlier times?
Draw diagram of sickles used for harvesting.
Which of the following is a harvest festival?
List few harvest festivals of India.
What do you understand by harvest festivals?
Describe one method of separation of grains from chaff.
Name the process in which grains are separated from chaff and hay with the help of wind. (Harvesting/ Winnowing/ Sowing)
Name the following.
Process of cutting and gathering of crops.
The processes of separating grains from stalk and grains from the husk and chaff respectively are _____.
Cutting and collecting mature crop is called _____.
In big farms, harvesting and threshing can be done with large machines called _____.
Combine is used for sowing of seeds.
