Question

what is shifting agriculture why was it regarded as has harmful by the British

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Answer 1

• Primitive type of farming done in forest regions on a patch of land cleared by cutting and burning trees. It is harmful because because of cultivating plants on a region farmers have to cut the trees so they can plant their seeds,this reduces trees and because of this many trees are cut down and deforestation occurs.

Answer 2

Shifting agriculture or Sweden agriculture is a traditional agricultural practice in many parts of Asia, Africa and South America. It has many local names such as ‘lading’ in South-East Asia, ‘milpa’ in central America, ‘chitemene’ or ‘tavy’ in Africa, ‘chena’ in SriLanka, dhya, Penda, bewar, nevad, jhum, podu, khandad and kumari in India.

In shifting cultivation, parts of a forest are cut and burnt in rotation, seeds are sown in ashes after the first monsoon rains and the crop is harvested by October-November. Such plots are cultivated for a couple of years and then left fallow for 12 to 18 years for the forest to grow back.

It was regarded as harmful by the British for the forests. They felt that land which was used for cultivation every few years could not grow trees for railway timber. When the forest was burnt there was the danger of the flames spreading and burning valuable timber.