Question

shifting cultivation in India is declining nowadays because A) of the government policies and tribal settlement B) people have now started coming out with commercial farming C); there is no demand for the products of shifting cultivation D) people are abandoning agriculture​

Answer 1

Answer:

(b) people have now started coming out with commercial farming.

Answer 2

Answer:

A) of the government policies and tribal settlement

Explanation:

Shifting cultivation in India is declining nowadays because the government put a ban on practicing this agricultural practice .

Because of the following reasons

• Hard to calculate taxes
• The forest catched flames as the land was burnt down

Shifting cultivation refers to plantation on a land and eventually burning it down once the crops are harvested so as to regain nutrients. Burning the land caused harmful fires burning the entire forest which also had timber also as the tribes shifted after every harvest the tax calculation became very difficult and thus it is declining.