SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -Herders often specialize in a particular type of livestock. Shepherds, for instance, herd and tend to flocks of sheep. Goatherds tend to goats, and swineherds to pigs and hogs. Herders who tend to cattle were once called cowherds. Most cowherds are now known as cowboys.

Detailed explanation-2: -Detailed Solution. Cultivation of crops along with rearing of animals for meat or milk is called Mixed Farming. For example, the same farm may grow cereal crops, and keep cattle, sheep, pigs or poultry. The correct answer is Mixed farming.

Detailed explanation-3: -Beginning of farming and herding occur during the Mesolithic Period i.e. roughly from about 12000 years ago. There were changes in climatic conditions. There was adequate rainfall with better tools and harmonized climate conditions for farming. People no longer depended on hunting, fishing, and gathering.