what are the different types of cultivation
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Different Types of Cultivation are as follows:-
Shifting Cultivation: It is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation while the cultivator moves on to another plot.
Subsistence Farming: It is self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families.
Intensive Farming: It is characterized by a low fallow ratio, higher use of inputs such as capital, fertilizers, pesticides and labor, and higher crop yields per unit land area. Local environment and soil can be damaged in this type of framing.
Extensive Farming: It is an agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labor, fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed. Local environment and soil are not damaged in this type of Farming.
Commercial Agriculture: Farming intended for sale and done on a large with mechanized equipment.
Dryland Farming: It is the agricultural techniques for non-irrigated cultivation of crops. Dryland farming is associated with drylands - dry areas characterized by a cool wet season followed by a warm dry season.
Monoculture: It is the agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop, plant, or livestock species, variety, or breed in a field or farming system at a time.
Crop Rotation: It is the practice of growing dissimilar crops to improve soil structure and fertility by alternatively growing deep rooted and shallow rooted plants
There are 8 major types of cultivation in Inda :-
1. Subsistence Farming: It is characterised by small and scattered amount of land holdings and use of primitive tools.
2. Shifting Agriculture: In this, first a small piece of forest land is cleared by felling trees and burning their trunks and branches. After the land is cleared, crops are grown for 2-3 years. The land is then left abandoned as the fertility of the soil decreases.
3. Plantation Agriculture: It is also alled as plantation farming. It is bush or tree farming. It was introduced by the britishers. It is a single crop farming of rubber, tea, coffee, cocoa, etc.
4. Intensive Farming: Is done in areas where irrigation has been possible. Farmers use fertilisers and pesticides on large scale.
5. Dry Agriculture: Also called as dry-land farming is a practice of growing crops without irrigation in areas where annual rainfall is 750mm–500 mm or even less.
6. Mixed and Multiple Agriculture: Is referred to cultivation of crops and raising of animals simultaneously. It is used to denote the practice of growing 2 or more crops together in a single field.
7. Crop Rotation: Refers to growing of large number of crops one after another in a fixed so that fertility of soil persists.
8. Terrace Cultivation: Is done in hills and mountain. Slopes are cut from these hills to form terraces and the land is used in the same way as in permanent agriculture.