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Which of the following increases soil erosion rate?

A. Crop diversification

B. Use of fertilizer

C. Making check dams

D. Shifting cultivation

Answer: Option D

Solution (By Examveda Team)

Shifting cultivation is a mode of farming long followed in the humid tropics of Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America. In the practice of “slash and burn”, farmers would cut the native vegetation and burn it, then plant crops in the exposed, ash-fertilized soil for two or three seasons in succession. It increases soil erosion rate.

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