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What Do You Understand by the Term ‘Jhuming’? - Geography

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What do you understand by the term ‘Jhuming’?

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It is a primitive method of subsistence agriculture in which a patch of forest is cleared and crops are grown. When the fertility of soil is lost after two or three years the cultivators move on to another patch. This way large forests are destroyed.

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