40.A particular region shows a pattern of alternating yellow and black stripes on the ground. The yellow stripes consist of land covered by ripening wheat.

Question

The black stripes are bare soil on which no crop is grown but farmers use herbicides or tillage to remove any weeds that try to grow in that region.
Why do. farmers in this region manage soils in this way?
(A) Farmers put the half of their and to rest for minimising erosion and soil degradation.
(B) Farmers discourage transpiration in the wheat plantation by allowing free evaporation from the soil of the bare stripes.
(C) Farmers are allowing land to naturally regain the nutrients for one or more seasons.
(D) All of these

Answer 1

The most appropriate answer is (A) Farmers put half of their land to rest for minimizing erosion and soil degradation.

The alternating pattern of yellow and black stripes indicates a practice where farmers manage some parts of their land (the bare soil or black stripes) to reduce erosion and allow the other parts (the yellow stripes with ripening wheat) to produce crops.

While options (B) and (C) may have some validity in certain contexts, they do not specifically describe the primary reason for the alternating striping pattern. Therefore, the best choice that encapsulates the farmers' intention in this particular method of land management is (A).