Question

Slash and burn agriculture is known as
A. Organic farming
B. Step farming
C. Crop rotation
D. Jhum cultivation

Answer 1

Hint: Slash and burn agriculture, in this type of agricultural practice, the plants are cut and then burned on that land only.

Complete Answer:
- Organic farming involves the use of no or very low levels of chemicals for the production of the crops it uses only organic manure.
- It does not involve any sort of burning or cutting of trees to get an area for plantation.
- Whereas the step farming occurs on the hilly areas to prevent loss of soil during rains. This is also a very well-known fact that crop rotation is the process which is followed by people so that the nutrition remains at proper levels.
- Jhum cultivation is done by the tribal people where they first cut the plant or trees and then burn them leaving the ashes on the ground only for some time and then they use it for crop production.

Note: It is noted that jhum cultivation involves a lot of negative effects such as deforestation, global warming due to the burning of the trees as well as soil erosion. This should not be practiced in order to save the environment. We should use more environmentally friendly ways to do the process of farming.