In the given question, a statement of Assertion is followed by a statement of Reason. Mark the correct answer.

Assertion: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries farmers started using wooden ploughs in the field.

Reason: It was cheap and farmers can use it themselves without the help of oxen.

The Assertion is correct but the Reason is incorrect.

Correct Reason- It was light and easily assembled with an iron tip or coulter. It, therefore, did not make deep furrows, which preserved the moisture better during the intensely hot months.