(i) What is agriculture?
(ii) Name the factors influencing agriculture?
(in) What is shifting cultivation? What are its disadvantages?
(iv) What is plantation agriculture?
(v) Name the fibre crops and name the climatic conditions required for
growth
Answers
Answer:
1. Agriculture is the 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.
After the soil loses its fertility, the land is abandoned and the cultivator moves to a new plot. Shifting cultivation is also known as 'slash and burn' agriculture. Deforestation, losing fertility of land and soil erosion are the disadvantages of shifting cultivation.
4. 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.
5.Cotton and jute are Fibre crops.
Cotton requires high temperature, light rainfall, two hundred and ten frost-free days and bright sunshine for its growth.
Answer:
growing large group of crops or plants together is called agriculture
ii)climate,land relief,soil, temperature are main factors influencing agriculture
iii)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.
disadvantage:destruction of large areas of land, primarily crop fields and tracts of forest.
iv)Plantation agriculture is a type of commercial farming in which a single crop is grown for the entire year.
v)Cotton requires high temperature, light rainfall,