INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

AGRICULTURE

IRRIGATION INDIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the most accurate description of Rahat?
A
pulley system
B
drop by drop
C
lever system
D
rain effect
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -It’s a traditional irrigation technique. A large wheel with buckets or containers placed on the rim is typical. Domestic animals such as cattle, horses, etc., rotate to collect water from the reservoir.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rahat is a system that uses livestock as labour, an old form of irrigation process wherein wheels have been used to take water out of a well. Rahat is a system that uses animals. By connecting the ropes to the animal bodies, these wheels were turned by oxen & cows.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rehat is a traditional irrigation system almost 1300 years old. Also known as the Water Wheel or the Persian wheel, it is made of a chain of buckets attached to a wheel which is then moved by another wheel using human or animal power.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rahat is a technology of man power for lifting water from well. It is completely made of iron. There is big wheel of iron fitted with a excel rod. This structured wheel in which small iron buckets are fixed at alternative distance is put inside the well through the wooden structure at the mouth of the well.

Detailed explanation-5: –Moat: It is also a traditional irrigation method. It is also called a pulley system as a pulley is used to draw water from the sources. It consists of a rope and pulley. At one end of the rope, a bucket is tied and another end is pulled by the animals to draw water.

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