Question

Crops grown by people practicing shifting agriculture are ______________.

• A. Yam and Tapioca
• B. Rubber and Jute
• C. Coffee and Yam
• D. Rubber and Cotton

Answer 1

The correct option is A Yam and Tapioca

Shifting Cultivation:

(1) In this type of cultivation, at first, a patch of forested land is cleared by cutting and burning the trees and bushes.

(2) Then crops are grown.

(3) When the fertility of the soil is lost after two or three years then cultivators abandoned that patch of land and move on to another patch

(4)In this type of cultivation primitive tools like digging sticks and hoes are used.

(5)Mostly tuber crops like Tapioca, Casava, Manoic, and Yams are grown.