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advantages and disadvantages of jhoom farming in points
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. Advantages of Jhum Cultivation
Jhum cultivation has various advantages. First and foremost is the replenishment of soil. It helps the soil gain back all the nutrients it has lost during the cultivation. The recycling process helps the natural vegetation grow back and this is what is exactly required for the soil. This method is very sustainable and in today’s world of depreciating resources, sustainable development is what we want. The burnt natural vegetation which turns into ash provides nutrients to the crops and act like natural fertilisers. This offers organic farming advantages through shift cultivation or Jhum cultivation.
The productivity in Jhum cultivation is high even a small area, hence the efficiency is high. This is a rather environment friendly way of farming. Though farming is supposed to organic in every form, recent practices have exploited the resources and that has taken a bad shape. Jhum cultivation controls the growth of weed on the agricultural land which is otherwise a useless green that grows almost anywhere and uses up the nutrients. It is also known to play an important role in pest control of the soil.
Since the soil is recycled in regular intervals, many soil borne diseases that might grow during the course of time are killed and reduces the chances of those diseases to a great extent. One of the major advantages of this type of farming is that there are lesser risks of attacks by animals and natural disasters like floods due to the sloped nature of the land.
3. Disadvantages of Jhum Cultivation
Everything that has been useful to the human population has also been exploited injudiciously. Same is the case with Jhum Cultivation. Shift farming can cause deforestation of a surrounding if farmers keep moving around in a particular area clearing the vegetation for cultivation. This has to be kept in check. Repeated cultivation on the same land can lead to infertility of the soil and make the land barren and can then take more than a century to replenish cultivation standards.
People, on the other hand, can resort to cultivating mushrooms, aloe vera, spirulina, sugarcane, pomegranate, banana or even azolla etc. while giving time for the vegetation to grow back. This kind of farming leads to loss of biodiversity in the area and also pollutes the nearby water bodies. The residues produced the cultivation including the ash produced that might be an advantage to the crops can prove to be a pollutant for the water bodies nearby.
Also, the weeds that have been removed will dirty the water nearby. It is known that there is a loss of almost 22 percent of the soil present in the top layer which leads to uneconomical farming methods. Jhum farmers are usually economically backward which brings them back to cultivation very soon and the land doesn’t get enough time to regrow its forest.
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Jhum cultivation has various advantages. First and foremost is the replenishment of soil. It helps the soil gain back all the nutrients it has lost during the cultivation. The recycling process helps the natural vegetation grow back and this is what is exactly required for the soil. This method is very sustainable and in today’s world of depreciating resources, sustainable development is what we want. The burnt natural vegetation which turns into ash provides nutrients to the crops and act like natural fertilisers. This offers organic farming advantages through shift cultivation or Jhum cultivation.
The productivity in Jhum cultivation is high even a small area, hence the efficiency is high. This is a rather environment friendly way of farming. Though farming is supposed to organic in every form, recent practices have exploited the resources and that has taken a bad shape. Jhum cultivation controls the growth of weed on the agricultural land which is otherwise a useless green that grows almost anywhere and uses up the nutrients. It is also known to play an important role in pest control of the soil.
Since the soil is recycled in regular intervals, many soil borne diseases that might grow during the course of time are killed and reduces the chances of those diseases to a great extent. One of the major advantages of this type of farming is that there are lesser risks of attacks by animals and natural disasters like floods due to the sloped nature of the land.
3. Disadvantages of Jhum Cultivation
Everything that has been useful to the human population has also been exploited injudiciously. Same is the case with Jhum Cultivation. Shift farming can cause deforestation of a surrounding if farmers keep moving around in a particular area clearing the vegetation for cultivation. This has to be kept in check. Repeated cultivation on the same land can lead to infertility of the soil and make the land barren and can then take more than a century to replenish cultivation standards.
People, on the other hand, can resort to cultivating mushrooms, aloe vera, spirulina, sugarcane, pomegranate, banana or even azolla etc. while giving time for the vegetation to grow back. This kind of farming leads to loss of biodiversity in the area and also pollutes the nearby water bodies. The residues produced the cultivation including the ash produced that might be an advantage to the crops can prove to be a pollutant for the water bodies nearby.
Also, the weeds that have been removed will dirty the water nearby. It is known that there is a loss of almost 22 percent of the soil present in the top layer which leads to uneconomical farming methods. Jhum farmers are usually economically backward which brings them back to cultivation very soon and the land doesn’t get enough time to regrow its forest.
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