Question

Mrs. Monica, along with her family, clears a piece of land and grows grain and other food crops to feed her family. When the soil’s fertility decreases, she prepares another piece of land for agriculture. Which of the following methods of agriculture does she use?

Options

• Plantation farming

• Slash and burn farming

• Intensive subsistence farming

• Commercial farming

Answer 1

Slash and burn farming

Explanation:

This is slash-and-burn (shifting) cultivation, the family clears and cultivates a patch to grow food for subsistence and moves to a fresh patch when soil fertility falls, a form of primitive subsistence farming.