Explain two types of farming done on the mountains?
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Graduated terrace steps are commonly used to farm on hilly or mountainous terrain. Terraced fields decrease both erosion and surface runoff, and may be used to support growing crops that require irrigation, such as rice.
Answer:
1. Terrace farming
2. Mountain framing
Explanation:
The two types of farming done on mountains are:
1. Terrace farming: It refers to the act of creating steps or terraces on mountain slopes to carry out farming activities. Each level consists of various crops being grown. The advantage is that rains do not wash away the nutrients altogether, but they are pushed down to the lower levels.
2. Mountain farming: It is largely family farming. Diversification of crops, integration of forests and husbandry activities, and low carbon footprint, mountain agriculture has evolved over the centuries in an often harsh and difficult environment and contributed to sustainable development. Cultivating mountain areas, with their patches of use able land dispersed at different altitudes, with many different climates and limited use for mechanization, is most effectively carried out by family farms.