Which region has the practice of shifting cultivation in India?

🔑 Key Points
Concept:
→ Every region follows different agricultural practices.
→ Depending on the type of crop and scale of farming, various agricultural practices are adopted.

🌿 About Shifting Cultivation:
→ It is a type of subsistence farming where the farmer cultivates on a plot of land temporarily, and when the land becomes infertile due to soil exhaustion, they move on to another plot.
→ Largely practised in the north-eastern region of India, including Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, etc.
→ Known as "Jhum Kheti" or Slash and burn agriculture.
→ Forest land is cleaned and ashes are added to the soil.
→ Cultivated spots/areas are usually small, with short periods of crop occupation alternating with long fallow periods.
→ Field rotation is practised instead of crop rotation.
→ Farmers move on to a new plot when the previous land becomes infertile due to soil exhaustion.

📌 Important Points:
→ Shifting cultivation in India:

Jhoom: North-eastern India
Vevar and Dahiyaar: Madhya Pradesh
Deepa: Madhya Pradesh
Zara and Erka: Southern States
Batra: South-eastern Rajasthan
Podu: Andhra Pradesh
Kumari: Western Ghats of Kerala
Kaman: Odisha
→ Shifting cultivation in the world:

Lading: South-east Asia
Milpa: Central America
Chitemene or Tavy: Africa
Chena: Sri Lanka
📝 Additional Information:
→ The practice of shifting cultivation is also known as "fire-fallow cultivation."