Slash and burn agriculture is known as [[1]] in North-Eastern states.

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Jhumming is the popularised name by which slash and burn agriculture is known in the North-Eastern states.
Slash and Burn is an agricultural farming type done by the primitive societies of different regions. In this, a small portion of land in a forest is cleared out to cultivate food crops and cereals. The farmers subsequently move to new pieces of land as the soil's fertility decreases.
The following characteristics are:

The capital investment requirement is shallow.

As primitive tools like hoe are used to perform it, the labour force consists primarily of family members.

It depends upon rainfall to fulfil water requirements

Known by different names: Dipa in Chhattisgarh, Kuruwa in Jharkhand.

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