HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
GENERAL AGRICULTURE
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Question
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Slash-and-Burn is an example of which agricultural practice?
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subsistence farming
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pastoral agriculture
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sustainable farming
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collective farming
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plantation agriculture
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Explanation:
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: -Slash and burn is a subsistence farming method used by millions of families in the tropics as their only known means of producing food. Families cut down and burn a patch of forest in order to create an area of fertile soil on which they can grow their food.
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