Question

What is shifting cultivation ? Why did the British government ban it ? Give any three reasons

Answer 1

in shifting cultivation parts of the forest are cut and burnt in rotation . seeds are sown in the Ashes after first monsoon rains and the crop is harvested by October November . such plot are left fallow for 12 to 18 years for forest to grow back . European foresters regarded this practice as harmful for the forest .they felt that land which was used for cultivation every few years could not grow trees for railway Timber . when of forest was burnt in there was at the added danger of the Flames spreading and burning valuable Timber .shifting cultivation also made it harder for the government to calculate taxes