Question

1.What is agriculture?
2.Name the factors influencing agriculture?
3.What is shifting cultivation? 4.What are its disadvantages?
5. What is plantation agriculture?
6.Name the fibre crops and name the climatic conditions required for their growth.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1.Agriculture refers to the art and science of cultivating the soil and raising crops and livestock.

1. 2.Climate,soil and vegetation are the main factors which influence the agriculture.

Answer 2

Answer:

1. Agriculture isthe science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.

2. Climate, land relief, soil and vegetation are the main factors which influence agricultural activity. The growth of plants depends on the temperature and humidity of the land and the amount of light it receives. We also cant grow plants in areas of severe drought.

3. Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned while post-disturbance fallow vegetation is allowed to freely grow while the cultivator moves on to another plot.

4. The major disadvantage of Shifting Cultivation is that many trees in the forest are cut and this increases soil infertility and leads to soil erosion

5. A plantation is a large-scale estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops. The crops that are grown include cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, opium, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees and forest trees.

6. Two major fibre crops are jute and cotton. Jute grows well on alluvial soil and requires high temperature, heavy rainfall and humid climate. Cotton requires high temperature, light rainfall, two hundred and ten frost-free days and bright sunshine for its growth.