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Shifting Cultivation

Shifting cultivation, also known as slash and burn agriculture, is a primitive subsistence farming method where farmers clear land by fire for cultivation and then abandon it after a few years due to soil fertility depletion. This practice is prevalent in various regions of India and has different local names, such as Jhum in North-eastern India and Podu in Andhra Pradesh. Similar practices are found worldwide, with unique names in countries like Myanmar (Taungya) and Brazil (Roka).

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Shifting Cultivation

Shifting cultivation, also known as slash and burn agriculture, is a primitive subsistence farming method where farmers clear land by fire for cultivation and then abandon it after a few years due to soil fertility depletion. This practice is prevalent in various regions of India and has different local names, such as Jhum in North-eastern India and Podu in Andhra Pradesh. Similar practices are found worldwide, with unique names in countries like Myanmar (Taungya) and Brazil (Roka).

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Shifting Cultivation

Shifting Cultivation is a form of primitive subsistence


agriculture in which farmers clear a small area of land
(usually cleared by fire ) and cultivated food grains like
cereals and paddy.

After harvesting the crops when the fertility of the soil


decreased they abandoned the area and shifted to a fresh
patch of land.
Shifting cultivation is also called slash and burn
agriculture because the natural vegetation of the
small land area is usually cleared by fire.
In shifting cultivation farming is done with very
primitive tools such as sticks and hoes.

After 3 to 5 years of cultivation, the soil loses its


fertility and the farmers move to other places and
clears another patch of land to start farming
again.
Different names of shifting cultivation in India

Shifting Cultivation
Sl.No State/Region
Name

1. North-eastern India Jhum

2. Andhra Pradesh Podu

Hilly Region of
3. the Western Ghats Kumari
of Kerala

4. South-eastern Rajasthan Batra


Bastar District
5. Deepa
(Chhattisgarh)

6. Southern States Zara and Erka

Bundelkhand Region Vevar and


7.
(Madhya Pradesh) Dahiyaar

Kaman, Vinga
8. Odisha
and Dhavi
Terms used for shifting cultivation in different
parts of the World
Shifting Cultivation
S. No. Country
Name
1. Myanmar Taungya
2. Sri Lanka Chena
3. Thailand Tamrai
Java, Indonesia and Ladang
4.
Malaysia Humah
5. Philippines Caingin

Uganda
6. Zambia Chetemini
Zimbabwe

7. Brazil Roka

8. Venezuela Konuko
Mexico and
9. Milya
Central America

10. Vietnam , Laos Ray

11. Guatemala Echalin

12. Madagascar Tavi


Yucatan and
13. Milpa
Guatemala

14. Mexico Comile

15. Western Africa Logan

Equatorial African
16. Fang
Countries

Congo (Zaire river


17. Masole
Valley)
1. “Slash and Burn agriculture” is the name given to

[A] method of potato cultivation

[B] process of deforestation

[C] mixed farming

[D] shifting cultivation


[D] shifting cultivation
2. Jhumming is shifting agriculture practiced in

[A] North-eastern India

[B] South-western India

[C] South-eastern India

[D] Northern India


[A] North-eastern India
3. Leaving agricultural land uncultivated for some years known as

[A] Intensive farming

[B] Fallowing

[C] Shifting cultivation

[D] Subsistence farming


[B] Fallowing

Field fallowing means leaving a


cropland uncultivated for
multiple seasons for it to
regain its nutrition.
4. Shifting Cultivation is known as ____ in Malaysia

A) Kharif

B) Jhumming

C) Ludang

D) Rabi
C) Ludang
5. Roca is an agricultural practices followed in

A)Brazil

B) Indonesia

C) China

D) Malaysia
A)Brazil

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