Tea cultivation is an example of which type of agriculture system?
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1 i.e. Plantation agriculture
Plantation Agriculture is the form of Agriculture in which a single person or company owns a big farm and grows a single crop (most often corn, tea, wheat, sunflower, cotton, etc.).
Characteristics:
- A signal crop is grown over a large area.
- It is capital intensive and done with migrant labour.
- All produce is used as raw material in industries such as tea coffee rubber sugarcane banana etc.
- Plantation has an interface of agriculture and industry both.
Additional Information-
| Mixed agriculture | Mixed agriculture or multi cropping is the act of growing at least two yields in a similar real estate during one developing season rather than only one harvest. |
| Shifting agriculture | Shifting cultivation is a subsistence type of farming whereby a plot of land is cleared, temporarily harvested for short periods of time and then abandoned and left in fallow for extended periods of time. |
| Mediterranean agriculture | Food crops production to cultivation of planted crops like olives, figs, and dates to farming of fruits and vegetables, Mediterranean agriculture has it all. Wheat is the most important crop grown in this region. |