Agriculture : An age-old economic activity
Cultivation methods have changed significantly
depending upon the characteristics of physical
environment, technological know-how and sociocultural practices
TYPES OF FARMING
Primitive Subsistence Farming
Slash and burn agriculture is practised in some
parts of India
Tools used such as hoe , dao and digging sticks and
family / community labour on small patches of land
Farmers clear a patch of land and then shift to a
new patch , to produce cereals and other food crops
1. What is Slash ad Burn agriculture ?
(CBSE 2016)
1.Monsoon
2.Natural fertility of soil
3.Old tools
Local names
Bewar or Dahiya – Madhya Pradesh
Podu or Penda – Andhra Pradesh
Pama Dabi or Koman or Bringa – Odisha
Kumari –Western ghats or Waltre – South eastern
Rajasthan
Khil – the Himalaya belt
Kuruwa - Jharkhad
Other names
• It is known as Jhumming in North eastern states
• Milpa – Mexico and Central Asia
• Conuco – Venuzuela
• Roca – Brazil
• Masole – Central Africa
• Ladang – Indonesia
• Ray – Vietnam
COMMERCIAL FARMING
CROPPING PATTERN
Denotes the effect of environmental changes on agriculture .
Proportion of area under different crops at different points of
time.
India had three cropping seasons
1. Rabi
2. Kharif
3. Zaid
SEASON
SOWN
HARVEST
CROPS
RABI
Oct - Dec
April - June
Wheat, Barley
KHARIF
May - July
Sep - Oct
Paddy, Maize
ZAID
March
June
Watermelon,
cucumber
MILLETS