Answer the following questions.

What is the method used for sowing each of the following crops?

wheat, rice, sugarcane, pumpkin, jowar, cotton. How many methods are there of sowing seeds?

Crops like rice are sown by transplanting seedling. Seedling is first grown in a seedbed. Seed bed is made by piling soft soil on the ground.

Sugarcane is planted in furrows made in soil.

Seeds of some varieties as cotton, pumpkin and watermelon are sown by

Poking them into the soil one by one.

There are various ways of sowing seeds-

1) The seed may be scattered on the field.

2) Poked into the soil one by one.

3) Prepared seedling may be transplanted.