Question

What is shifting agriculture .why it is being discouraged

Answer 1

The shifting agriculture also known as jhumming cultivation or slash and burn cultivation ,it is a type of cultivation in which a small patch of land is cleared by cutting down trees and then burning them, and the ashes are spread evenly on the soil and then crop is grown.

•It is being discouraged because it involves deforestion and burning of trees which causes many types of pollutions mainly air pollution.

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Answer 2

shifting agriculture is also referred to as slash and burn agriculture where the farmer clears a patch of land and burns the vegetation to make the soil fertile when the soil loses fertility after the farming the farmer goes on clearing a new patch of land and does farming there

the reasons for discouragement is

low productivity of crops

relied on rain for farming

the type of farming is now replaced by new methods

food produced can only sustain a family

traditional practice with the use of primitive tools and lot of labour