Question
Distinguish between intensive farming & shifting cultivation.
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Answer
| intensive farming | Shifting Cultivation |
| (i) Intensive farming is carried out in one and the same farm for years together. | (i) In shifting Cultivation, every year a new area is chosen for cultivation. |
| (ii) This type of farming is mostly seen in the developing regions. | (ii) This type of cultivation is practised in the tropics in densely forested areas or hilly tracts. |
| (iii) In this type of farming the cultivator and his family are totally dependent on farming. Farm production is sufficient only for the requirement of the family. | (iii) The production obtained from shifting cultivation is not sufficient to fulfill the food requirement. So people undertake hunting, fishing and gathering of bulbs and roots from forest. |
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