Agriculture Test - 11

• Maharashtra is the state producing maximum cotton cloth. 
• Mumbai is called the cotton polis of India because maximum number of cotton textile mills are set up in Mumbai.

According to the stage of evolution, economic activities are grouped into 5 main types, they are-

Costing around Rs. 1 lakh per kg. Mokaibari Tea has become one of the most expensive tea. It is grown by Makaibari Tea Estate in Darjeeling.

Jhum cultivation is popular as the shifting cultivation. It is one of the oldest types of cultivation practices in India. It is mainly practised in the northeastern states of India like Assam and Nagaland. It is also popular in Orissa. It has a particular pattern that has to be followed according to the cycle of Jhum cultivation.

This type of shifting cultivation is not happening in UP. The correct option is D.

• Primary activities are directly dependent on environment as these refer to utilization of earth’s resources such as land, water, vegetation, building materials and minerals.
  
•  It, thus includes, hunting and gathering, pastoral activities, fishing, forestry, agriculture, and mining and quarrying.

Primitive food Gathering is practiced in northern Canada, northern Eurasia and southern Chile. It is also happening in the Amazon Basin, tropical Africa, Northern fringe of Australia. Shifting Cultivation is popular in the thickly forested areas of Amazon basin and some parts of Southeast Asia and Northeast India. Agriculture, which is in practice in one place by a settled farmer without any rotation, is called sedentary agriculture. The term primitive agriculturists are popular in tropical Africa in contrast to shifting cultivation.

 It is clear that Primitive food Gathering is not in practice in India. Thus option C is correct.

Shifting cultivation is a traditional practice of agriculture prevalent in various parts of Asia, Africa and South-America. It is known as lading in south-east Asia, milpa in Central America, Chitemene or tavy in Africa and Chena in Sri Lanka. In India it has different local names like dhya, penda, bewar, nevad, Jhum, podu.

An agricultural system in which a person uses a piece of land only to abandon or alter the initial use a short time later is known as shifting cultivation. This system often involves clearing of a piece of land followed by several years of wood harvesting or farming until the soil loses fertility. Once the land becomes inadequate for crop production, it is left to be reclaimed by natural vegetation, or sometimes converted to a different long term cyclical farming practice. Ecological consequences from shifting cultivation are often deleterious. Shifting cultivation results in infertility of land. That’s why it is banned at present.