Slash and burn agriculture is known as Bewar in which state of India?

Question

Question

This question was previously asked in

NTPC CBT-I (Held On: 19 Jan 2021 Shift 2)

Answer 1

The correct answer is Madhya Pradesh.

Key Points

Slash and burn agriculture is known as Bewar or Dahiya in Madhya Pradesh.
Slash and burn farming is a type of shifting agriculture in which the natural flora is cut down and burned to clear the ground for cultivation, and then the farmer moves to a new fresh plot and repeats the process when the plot becomes infertile.
This procedure is repeated again and again. Because the rainforest's riches are in the trees, the earth loses its fertility. Everything is broken down by soil organisms as leaves fall or trees die, nutrients are returned to the soil, and tree roots take them up again.
As a result, regular recycling ensures that everything remains fertile and grows.

Important Points

Slash and burn Agriculture is a frequently utilised method of food production in which forests or wildland are cleared and any residual flora is burned.
The ash layer that forms offers a nutrient-rich layer to help fertilise crops on newly cleared soil.

Different names of Slash and Burn farming in different states are:

Name	Regions
Jhumming	Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland
Pamlou	Manipur
Dipa	Bastar (Chhattisgarh) and Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Podu or Penda	Andhra Pradesh
Pama Dabi or Koman or Bringa	Orissa
Kumara	Western Ghats
Kuruwa	Jharkhand
Valre or Waltre	South eastern Rajasthan