Differentiate between shifting and plantation agriculture

Dear student Shifting cultivation or slash-and-burn cultivation is a type offarming activity which involves clearing a plot of land by fellingtrees, burning the felled trees, mixing the ashes with soil, and thengrowing crops like maize, yam, potatoes and cassava on the clearedland. After the soil loses its fertility, the land is abandoned andthe cultivator moves on to a new plot. Plantation agriculture is a type of commercial farming where a singlecrop of tea, coffee, sugarcane, cashew, rubber, banana or cotton isgrown. Large amount of labour and capital is required in this type offarming. The produce is either processed on the farm itself or innearby factories. Major plantations are found in the tropical regionsof the world, like rubber in Malaysia, coffee in Brazil, tea in Indiaand Sri Lanka, etc. Regards

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