Many agricultural activities and secondary occupations are also practised in mixed farming. With the help of your teacher make a list of secondary occupations.
Important Questions on Whose Forests?
Farmers make steps in hilly regions.
Observe the pictures given below. Write the corresponding agricultural methods in the space given.
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Give one word for the following.
Farming in the hilly area in which the slope is cut into steps. (Terrace farming/Crop rotation)
Which of the following is the chief characteristic of mixed farming?
Identify the following pictures and name the method used for soil conservation.
What is terrace farming? How is it helpful for the soil?
Read the given description of farming and identify its type:
"After cutting one crop, the land is left as it is for some years. Nothing is grown there. The bamboo or weed which grows on that land is not pulled out. They are cut and burnt. The ash makes the land fertile when the land is ready for farming; it is lightly dug up, not ploughed. Seeds are dropped on it."
