Indian Agriculture and Farming Types

Vocabulary and regional terminology related to Indian agriculture and primitive farming systems based on the provided text.

Primary activity

An economic activity, such as agriculture, which produces most of the food consumed and raw materials for various industries.

Two-thirds

The fraction of India's population currently engaged in agricultural activities.

Primitive Subsistence Farming

A type of farming practised on small patches of land using primitive tools like the hoe, dao, and digging sticks, and relying on family/community labour.

Slash and burn agriculture

A farming method where farmers clear a patch of land to produce food crops and move to a fresh patch once soil fertility decreases, allowing nature to replenish the soil.

Jhumming

The name for 'slash and burn' agriculture in north-eastern states like Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Nagaland.

Pamlou

The name for 'slash and burn' agriculture in Manipur.

Dipa

The name for 'slash and burn' agriculture in the Bastar district of Chhattishgarh, and in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Milpa

The term used for 'slash and burn' agriculture in Mexico and Central America.

Conuco

The term used for 'slash and burn' agriculture in Venezuela.

Roca

The term used for 'slash and burn' agriculture in Brazil.

Masole

The term used for 'slash and burn' agriculture in Central Africa.

Ladang

The term used for 'slash and burn' agriculture in Indonesia.

Ray

The term used for 'slash and burn' agriculture in Vietnam.

Bewar or Dahiya

The name given to primitive cultivation in Madhya Pradesh.

Podu or Penda

The name given to primitive cultivation in Andhra Pradesh.

Pama Dabi, Koman, or Bringa

The names given to primitive cultivation in Odisha.

Kumari

The name given to primitive cultivation in the Western Ghats.

Valre or Waltre

The names given to primitive cultivation in South-eastern Rajasthan.

Khil

The name given to primitive cultivation in the Himalayan belt.

Kuruwa

The name given to primitive cultivation in Jharkhand.