CBSE Class 8 Social Science Geography Agriculture Shifting Cultivation Farming Types Assignment Set 01

Answer: 1. Shifting cultivation is called ladang in Malaysia.
2. Simple tools are used, such as digging sticks, hoes and wooden implements.
3. Crop rotation is growing different crops one after another on the same land.
4. Two crops under intensive cultivation: rice and wheat (also vegetables).
5. GCMMF stands for Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation.
6. In sedentary primitive farming the farmers settle at one place, and use simple tools and family labour.
7. In extensive farming farms are very large, usually more than 200 hectares.
8. The produce is stored in large silos and grain elevators.
9. Crop rotation helps soil fertility, because legumes add nitrogen and different crops use different nutrients.
10. Horticulture is growing fruits, vegetables and flowers.

Teacher's Note: Use the key term in your answer.

Answer: Intensive farming is done on small farms using much labour, fertilisers, irrigation and high-yielding seeds, so that a high yield is got from each hectare. It is found in India, China and Japan. Mixed farming is when crop-growing and animal rearing are done together on the same farm. Its features are: farms are of medium size, the farmer grows crops like wheat and fodder and keeps cattle or poultry, manure from animals is used on the crops, and there are two sources of income.

Teacher's Note: Give an example if the question allows.

Answer: Climate (rainfall and temperature), soil and relief, and the availability of capital, technology, labour, irrigation and markets. Government policies also matter.

Teacher's Note: Write a short, clear answer.

Answer: Market gardening is growing vegetables, fruits and flowers near large towns for sale in the market, as vegetables spoil quickly. Horticulture is the cultivation of fruits, vegetables and flowers in gardens and orchards. The practices include using good seeds and plants, much irrigation, fertilisers and pesticides, greenhouses, and fast transport and cold storage to carry the produce to the markets. They are high-value crops grown on small land.

Teacher's Note: Remember this for your exam.

Answer: Shifting cultivation is when farmers clear a patch of forest by cutting and burning the trees, grow crops for two or three years, and then move to a new patch as the soil loses its fertility. It is called jhum in north-east India and ladang in Malaysia. Its features: (1) slash-and-burn is used to clear land; (2) the plots are small; (3) simple tools are used, with little or no fertiliser (the ash is the fertiliser); (4) the soil loses fertility in a few years, so people move; and (5) the farming is for the family's own food.

Teacher's Note: Learn this point and write it in your own words.