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The cutting down of trees and setting them on fire and raising crops on the resulting ash is called:

A. Pyrolysis

B. Jhum

C. Taungya system

D. Shift cultivation

Answer: Option B

Solution(By Examveda Team)

In India, the practice of clearing and burning the forest area for cultivation is known as jhum or jhoom. Slash-and-burn can be part of shifting cultivation, an agricultural system in which farmers routinely move from one cultivable area to another.

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