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:

(A) and (C) only

• Shifting cultivation is a type of slash-and-burn agriculture practiced in different parts of the world under different names:

  • Jhuming → in North-Eastern India.

  • Milpa → in Mexico and Central America.

• Chinook is not a farming practice; it is a warm, dry wind.

• Plantation agriculture is a completely different system of large-scale, commercial farming.