Question

VI. Shifting agriculture is known by different names in different regions/states of India. N
two show how much you know about it
Name of Shifting Agriculture
1. jhumming
2.
Region/State
Madhya Predesh
3. Podu
4
Odisha
Western Ghat
5.
6. Khu
7
Jharkhand​

Answer 1

Slash-and-burn agriculture, or fire–fallow cultivation, is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden In subsistence agriculture,slash-and-burn typically uses little technology.

Slash and Burn Farming in India

Name Regions

Jhumming Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland

Pamlou Manipur

Dipa Bastar (Chhattisgarh) and Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Bewar or Dahiya Madhya Pradesh

Podu or Penda Andhra Pradesh

Pama Dabi or Koman or Bringa Orissa

Kumara Western Ghats

Valre or Waltre South eastern Rajasthan

Khi Himalayan belt

Kuruwa Jharkhand