Question

What is shifting cultivation? Why did the European foresters regard this practice as harmful for the forests?
CBSE Class IX Social Science LA (5 Marks)

Answer 1

shifting culture was used in India many many years ago.during the practice of shifting culture people used to stay at one place and eat all the food which is present in the area's forest and used to move from that place,if food is completed in the area's forest.european foresters regard this practice as harmful because most of forest and animals in the forest will be damaged when humans go for food

Answer 2

European foresters regarded shifting cultivation harmful for forests because they felt that the land which was used for cultivation every few years could not grow trees for railway timber. Besides, the burning of trees may result in spreading of fire into the forest destroying valuable timber.