Which one of the following is a collective farming practice of temperate region?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Kolkhoz
In collective farming, the land, livestock and labour of the farmers are pooled together and owned by society as a whole.
Option (1) Milpa — Incorrect. Milpa is the name of shifting cultivation in Central America and Mexico, a tropical region.
Option (2) Ladang — Incorrect. Ladang is the name of shifting cultivation in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Option (3) Kolkhoz — Correct. Kolkhoz is the model of collective farming started in the erstwhile Soviet Union to raise farm output and make the country self-sufficient.
Option (4) Slash and burn agriculture — Incorrect. This is another name of shifting cultivation, in which the forest is cleared by fire. Tribes practise it in the tropics.
NCERT (2026-27): “Collective Farming … The basic principle behind this types of farming is based on social ownership of the means of production and collective labour. Collective farming or the model of Kolkhoz was introduced in erstwhile Soviet Union to improve upon the inefficiency of the previous methods of agriculture and to boost agricultural production for self-sufficiency.” “Primitive Subsistence Agriculture … The vegetation is usually cleared by fire, and the ashes add to the fertility of the soil. Shifting cultivation is thus, also called slash and burn agriculture. … It is prevalent in tropical region in different names, e.g. Jhuming in North eastern states of India, Milpa in central America and Mexico and Ladang in Indonesia and Malaysia.” |