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Agriculture
What is shifting cultivation? What are its disadvantages?
Shifting cultivation is the form of agriculture in which a plot of land is cleared by felling the trees and burning them. The ashes are then mixed with the soil and crops are grown. After the soil loses its fertility, the land is abandoned and the cultivator moves to a new plot.
It causes deforestation, soil erosion and are not viable on large scale.
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Give reasons.
In India agriculture is a primary activity.
Give reasons.
Different crops are grown in different regions.
Distinguish between the followings.
Primary activities and secondary activities.
Distinguish between the followings.
Subsistence farming and intensive farming.
Which of these is a tertiary activity?
What is the breeding of fish known as?
What is the main crop in intensive subsistence agriculture?
Which form of farming is also called “slash and burn” agriculture?
Which of these is not a plantation product?
In which season wheat is grown in India?
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