Question

Define Pastoralism. What is forest acts and explain its effects on Pastoralists?

Answer 1

Pastoralism- It is the practice of herding, as the primary economic activity of a society.

What are forest acts ?

Both the 1878 act and the 1927 "one sought to consolidate and reserve the areas having forest cover, or significant wildlife, to regulate movement and transit of forest produce, and duty leviable on timber and other forest produce."

Answer 2

Pastoralism is the branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock .It is animal husbandry: the care, tending and use of animals such as cattle, camels, goats, yaks, ilamas, reindeers, horses and sheep .

The Forest Act , 1927 was largely based on previous Indian Forest Acts imemented under the British. The most famous one was the Indian Forest Act of 1878.

EFFECTS:

1. It stopped shifting cultivation, hunting and collection of forest procedure, the people of Baskar were very worried.

2. Some villages were allowed to stay on in reserved forests on the condition that they worked free for forest in cutting and transporting tree, protecting the forest from fires.

3. People of other villages were displaced without any notice or compensation...