Benda in the Abujh Maad forest burns patches of forest and farms on the ash. This practice is called:
AMixed crop farming
BShifting cultivation
CTerraced farming
DPlantation farming
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Shifting cultivation
1. Benda's tribe practises a primitive agriculture.
2. It is shifting cultivation.
3. The story shows naturalisation of humans.
_Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 1, Human Geography: Nature and Scope._
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