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Suppose you had a farm in a drought striken area of your state what crops would you grow and how? (AS1)

Drought area has a very less groundwater and abnormally low rainfall.

So we should try to grow crops —


1. which requires less water.


2. Which can suffer high heat (humidity).


3. We should use hyv seeds (high yield variety seeds) or hybrid seeds.


4. Examples - we will grow pulse crops like pea and kidney bean.


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