what do you mean by term agriculture write about jhum agriculture
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what do you mean by term agriculture
Agriculture describes the practice of growing crops or raising animals. Someone who works as a farmer is in the agriculture industry. The Latin root of agriculture is agri, or "field," plus cultura, "cultivation." Cultivating a piece of land, or planting and growing food plants on it, is largely what agriculture means
about jhum agriculture
Jhum cultivation, also known as the slash and burn agriculture, is the process of growing crops by first clearing the land of trees and vegetation and burning them thereafter. The burnt soil contains potash which increases the nutrient content of the soil.
Agriculture means growing crops.
Jhum is a form of shifting cultivation.
In this system of cultivation, a plot of land is cleared by cutting and burning the vegetation growing on it.
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