INTRODUCTION TO FOOD TECHNOLOGY
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY
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Tropical regions with relatively high temperatures and abundant rainfall.
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Developed countries with a low number of farmers.
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Less developed countries with a heavy reliance on subsistence agriculture.
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Societies that rely on hunting and gathering.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Shifting cultivation is practiced in most of the world’s humid, low-latitude climate regions, where temperatures are relatively high and rainfall is abundant. Shifting cultivation is practiced by about 250 million people, mainly in the tropical rainforests of South America, Central and West Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nagaland have highest percentage of land under the jhum cultivation, which follows by Manipur, Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Mizoram. In Nagaland, highest number of families practicing shifting cultivation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Swidden agriculture, also known as shifting cultivation, refers to a technique of rotational farming in which land is cleared for cultivation (normally by fire) and then left to regenerate after a few years.
Detailed explanation-4: -An example of shifting cultivation is of land being farmed for 2-3 years before moving on to other areas. This allows the farmed area to recover. Shifting cultivation is an example of arable, subsistence and extensive farming.