Essay cultivation

Cropping Pattern in Shifting Cultivation: In shifting or Jhum cultivation tribal farmers follow a mixed land use-pattern for raising various crops together. Thus, they produce large variety crops from the same field and these include foodgrains, vegetables and cash crops.

Cultivation is a theory used to study media effects that was founded by George Gerbner. Gerbner wanted to find a new way to examine media effects but with a shift in focus from the traditional way media effects was studied.

Perhaps the system of shifting cultivation is the first stage for the use of soil for the production of crops. This system of cultivation was practised over a long period of time as a regular system by the hill inhabitants of Black Africa and America.

Process of Shifting Cultivation: Shifting cultivation has its definite process and firstly it needs selection of a plot. The next step is to slash or cut the forest, bushes etc. up to stump level in the month of December-January followed by drying and the burning the jungle for making it clear.