Question

Features of Jhuming cultivation

Answer 1

Answer:

Main features of Shifting Cultivation. The following characteristics could be describe/explained. Clearings made in the rainforest by cutting and firing trees (slash and Burn) Largest trees often left because they are difficult to move and can provide a source of food in the form of fruit.

Answer 2

Answer:

Shifting cultivation or jhum, predominantly practiced in the north-east of India is an agricultural system where a farming community slashes secondary forests on a predetermined location, burns the slash and cultivates the land for a limited number of years.

It's Key Features:

• Rotation of fields.
• Use of fire for clearing the land.
• Keeping the land fallow for regeneration for a number of years.
• Use of human labour as main input.
• Non-employment of draught animals.