22. Intext activity 5

Take some seeds of the fruits you eat and mix it with compost. Add some clay with them and roll them into small balls. Allow them to dry under the sun for two or three days. Take these balls and drop them in dry and arid areas. This will help new plants to grow. You can throw those balls while you are travelling. This will help grow plants in areas where there is no plant cover.

 

a. To make seed balls, \(1\) cup of fruit seeds are mixed with  365 cups of compost.

 

b. To this, 356 cups of clay powder, and slowly mix all the ingredients in water to form a mixture with your hands till everything forms and sticks together to form a ball.

 

c. The seed balls are allowed to dry under the sun for two or three days. These balls are dropped in dry and arid areas. With the start of dry seasonmonsoon, the seed balls germinates into a seedseedling.

 

d. The concept of seed ball decreasesincreases the tree cover and creates awareness among people about plant conservation.