Describe ‘Jhumming cultivation’ in one sentence. -SST 10th

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Jhumming cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation while the cultivator moves on to another plot.

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