Question

in which one of the following state terrace cultivation is practiced ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Terrace cultivation is the practice of cutting flat areas out of a hilly or mountainous landscape in order to grow crops.

Uttaranchal is 86% mountainous and most of the northern parts of the state are part of Greater Himalaya ranges, covered by the high Himalayan peaks and glaciers.

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✯Terrace cultivation or Farming

method of growing crops on sides of hills or mountains by planting on graduated terraces built into the slope. Though labour-intensive, the method has been employed effectively to maximize arable land area in variable terrains and to reduce soil erosion and water loss.

✯Types of Terracing

There are two types of terracing known as graded terracing and level terracing.

—☆Grade terrace:

In this method of terracing, a terrace should have a variable or uniform slope along its elongated length, use to dispatch excessive water flow at safe velocity into the vegetated canal or waterway.

—☆Level terrace:

In this method of terracing, a level terrace following the counter line is used in control to the graded yards. This terracing is advisable to follow in those regions which have porous soil.

✯Advantages of Terrace Farming

Here below is a list of the advantages of using terrace farming. Learn them.

• Terrace farming restricts the wash away of nutrients from the fertile soil by the rain water. Which cause to good and healthy crop and higher production.

• Terracing also helps in preventing the washing away of plants because of heavy flows of rain water. Sometimes, in the hilly area, rain water washed away the complete crops, cause to low crop production.

• Terracing also helps us in reducing the water loss and soil erosion of your farm.

• The major and significant advantage of terrace farming is that makes us able to do farming on the sloppy and hilly region where it is not too easy to cultivate.

• It also transforms the infertile land area to productive and fertile land. You can farm Maize, Rice and some more crops on the terrace.

• Usually, in hilly areas, there is less chance of farming as less water available. But with the help of this method, people use the rain water for cultivation and produce a lot from the commercial crop like Rice and Maize

✯Disadvantages of Terrace Farming

Besides the advantages, every system also has some limitation. Like wise, the method of farming on terrace also has some limitation, which is mention below.

• Besides its plenty of benefits, terracing can lead to rainwater saturation. This is dangerous because of, In the hilly area there are high rains causing to an overflow of water and sometimes the flow becomes too dangerous that it can wash anything with it.

• It does not manage well than terracing may result in mudslides.

• Farming on terrace requires labor intensive method as it there requires labor constructing and managing that terrace from sloppy land.

• Following this method require much initial investment in the beginning only as there require labors to prepare and manage your terrace.

• Because of leaching process, it can lead to the reduction in the soil quality

✯Importance of Terrace Farming

• It is the terrace farming that helps us to make farming on the sloppy hills or Mountains where it is not too easy to farm with the help of graduated terrace constructed on the slopes. So, it is an important agricultural method which helps us to cultivate on those sloppy region parts of the world as possible.

• The absence of terracing may cause to a huge unproductive and infertile area where this method is being operated. Mostly, this technique is used by the Asia in many parts and its needs to be explored in other portions of the world such as America, Africa, and other portions of the Asia that are not still taking advantages of it.