ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Primitive subsistence agriculture is also known as slash and burn agriculture or shifting cultivation. The crops are sown at calculated intervals, often between other plants, so that the crop can be staggered to provide food all year round.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shifting agriculture is a type of subsistence farming. Primitive subsistence farming is also known as slash and burn agriculture or shifting agriculture. Q. Shifting, burn farming and nomadic herding are all types of subsistence farming.

Detailed explanation-3: -Slash-and-burn agriculture is often used by tropical-forest root-crop farmers in various parts of the world, for animal grazing in South and Central America, and by dry-rice cultivators in the forested hill country of Southeast Asia. The ash provides some fertilization, and the plot is relatively free of weeds.

Detailed explanation-4: -The practice involves clearing vegetative/forest cover on land/slopes of hills, drying and burning it before onset of monsoon and cropping on it thereafter. After harvest, this land is left fallow and vegetative regeneration is allowed on it till the plot becomes reusable for same purpose in a cycle. Q.

Detailed explanation-5: -Primitive subsistence farming is also called slash and burn agriculture or shifting cultivation. In this farming, a patch of land is cleared by slashing the vegetation, and then the slashed plants are burnt. The ash obtained from burning plants is mixed with the soil and crops are grown.