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Question
Answer the following question in one or two paragraphs
What do you understand by shifting agriculture?
Solution
Shifting agriculture is mainly practised by tribal people who clear a small area in the forests, scatter the seeds, leaves them to grow, depend on monsoon for water and when the land becomes infertile after some years shift themselves to a new piece of land in the forests.
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