Correct Answer - Option 3 : North - Eastern region
correct answer is - North - Eastern region.
Concept:
Shifting Cultivation:
- Shifting cultivation is a form of agricultural practice in which farmers clear an area of land by slashing vegetation and burning forests for agricultural purposes.
- This practice is also known as slash-and-burn agriculture or slash-and-burn cultivation.
- Shifting cultivation is called by different names in different parts of India.
Salient features of shifting agriculture -
- Forest land is cleaned and ashes are added to the soil.
- it is also called Jhum agriculture.
- It is also known as fire-fallow cultivation.
- Cultivated spots/areas are usually small.
- Short periods of crop occupation alternate with long fallow periods.
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Field rotation is practised instead of crop rotation.
Explanation:
Shifting Cultivation is a type of subsistence farming in which farmer cultivates on a plot of land temporarily, and when he finds the land infertile to grow due to soil exhaustion, they move on to another plot.
It is largely practised in the north-eastern region of India, including Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, etc. This way of farming is also known as "Jhum Kheti".
