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Slash and burn agriculture is known as ______ in north eastern states.
Slash and burn agriculture is known as ______ in north eastern states.
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The correct option is A Jhumming
- Jhumming is the local name of shifting cultivation practiced in North-Eastern regions of India.
- Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation.
- In this type of farming,farmers usually choose a forest area ,then cut it down and burn it.
- The farmers then cultivate the land and grow crops on it.
- It is jhumming in north-eastern states like Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland.
- Jhumming is the local name of shifting cultivation practiced in North-Eastern regions of India.
- Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation.
- In this type of farming,farmers usually choose a forest area ,then cut it down and burn it.
- The farmers then cultivate the land and grow crops on it.
- It is jhumming in north-eastern states like Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland.
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