Question

Slash and burn agriculture is also known as _____________.

• A. Extensive cultivation
• B. Dry cultivation
• C. Jhum cultivation
• D. Fast cultivation

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

Jhum cultivation, also known as the slash and burn agriculture, is the process of growing crops by first clearing the land of trees and vegetation and burning them thereafter. The burnt soil contains potash which increases the nutrient content of the soil.

Tribal groups in the northeastern Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland and the Bangladeshi districts of Rangamati, Khagrachari, Bandarban and Sylhet refer to slash-and-burn agriculture as jhum or jhoom cultivation