What are the different names of Shifting Cultivation?
(A) Jhuming
(B) Chinook
(C) Milpa
(D) Plantation agriculture
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
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Shifting cultivation is a type of slash-and-burn agriculture practiced in different parts of the world under different names:
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Jhuming → in North-Eastern India.
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Milpa → in Mexico and Central America.
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Chinook is not a farming practice; it is a warm, dry wind.
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Plantation agriculture is a completely different system of large-scale, commercial farming.