02 June 2016

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Shifting cultivation\land rotation / jhumming

1. Forest land is cleared and cultivated. Due to cultivation of the
same crop generally rice on the same cleared forest land year
after year. soil productivity is lost. And the crop is shifted to
other slashed and burnt land.
2. Hear some crop is grown year after year. In this case land is
rotated but crop is fixed. Therefor it may also be called land
rotation.
3. Shifting of land hence called shifting cultivation. Also called
jhum cultivation.
4. It causes soil erosion.
5. Practised in north eastern states of India. Chootanagpur pleatau
of jharkhand ,M.P. and in hilly areas.

CROP ROTATION

1. Crop rotation is about revers of land rotation. Hear land is

fixed but crop rotated year after year.
2. On a certain land, repeated cultivation of crop or crop and
fallow land in a certain sequence is called crop rotation.
Rice - wheat - moong : 2008-09
Rice - mustard - chilly : 2009 - 10
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Rice - mustard - chilly : 2009 - 10

Hear wheat is rotated by mustard and moong by chilly in the
next agriculture year.
3. Maintains and even improves soil fertility and stabilise
income.

4. It checks the soil erosion and soil conserves moisture.

5. Suitable crop rotation is the key of modern scientific
agriculture which aims to produce max yield by maintaining
by soil productivity

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE\ECO FARMING :

The concept of sustainable agriculture has come up because
yields from modern farming technique ( modern commercial
agriculture ) reaching a plateau and the environmental
problems due to excessive use of chemicals and fertilizers and
pesticides residue in food chain.
Sustainable agriculture is that form farming which produces
sufficient food to meet the needs of the present generation
without eroding the ecological assets and productivity of life
supporting systems of future generations. Natural farming is
an excellent illustration of sustainable agriculture. It is also
known as ecological farming\eco farming or organic farming
or permaculture. It is called eco farming because ecological
balance is given importance and organic farming because
organic matter is the main source for nutrient management. It
is a system of cultivation with use of manures ,crop rotation
and multi-level cultivation and integrated animal husbandry.
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and multi-level cultivation and integrated animal husbandry.

The term sustainability denotes the characteristic of a process
that can be maintained and sustainable use of the eco system
refers to making use of the system without impairing its
capacity for renewal or regeneration.

THANK YOU SO MUCH

AMAN JAIN Student of B.sc Agriculture

TEERTHANKER MAHAVEER UNIVERSITY

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