SUSTAINABILITY IN FOOD TECHNOLOGY
SUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION
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Question
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People who practise shifting cultivation ____
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live on the outskirts of large cities
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live in small villages
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are nomads
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned while post-disturbance fallow vegetation is allowed to freely grow while the cultivator moves on to another plot.
Detailed explanation-2: -A field that had been cultivated once was left fallow for several years, Shifting cultivators were found in the hilly and forested tracts of north-east and central India. The lives of these tribal people depended on free movement within forests and on being able to use the land and forests for growing their crops.
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