Question

2. Which of the following is not a feature of shifting cultivation?
(a) Parts of the forests are cut and burnt in rotation.
(b) Soeds are sown in the_asties salles
(c) Plo's cleared are cultivated for a few years and then
left follow.
(d) Single crop is grown on these plots. what is the answer​

Answer 1

SHIFTING CULTIVATION

(D) Single crop is grown on these plots is not a feature of shifting cultivation.

FEATURES OF SHIFTING CULTIVATION :

* Shifting cultivation is an agricultural practice  in which a person utilizes a piece of land for a brief period of time before abandoning or changing that usage.

* This approach often entails clearing a plot of land, followed by several years of wood harvesting or farming until the soil becomes deficient in fertility.

* When the land is no longer suitable for agricultural production, it is either left to recover by natural vegetation or converted to another long-term cyclical farming technique. This type of agriculture is usually practiced by a single person or family, although it may sometimes encompass a whole community.

Answer 2

(d) Single crop is grown on these plots is not a feature of shifting cultivation

• First, let us understand what is shifting cultivation.
• It is a kind of cultivation where a particular piece of land is removed and cultivated for only a short period of time and when the soil renounces its fertility the cultivated abundance such land and moves on to the next field of land.
• Single crop produced on these plots is not a kind of shifting cultivation it is plantation agriculture.
• It is a system of agriculture where a single and only one type of crop is cultivated on a very large area