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A system in which local farmers were allowed to cultivate temporarily within a plantation is known as:

  1. A
    shifting cultivation
  2. B
    intensive cultivation
  3. C
    extensive cultivation
  4. D
    taungya cultivation

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The Taungya system was a system introduced by the colonial administration in which local farmers were allowed to cultivate agricultural crops temporarily within a young forest plantation till the canopy of the trees closed.

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A system in which local farmers were allowed to cultivate temporarily within a plantation is known as:
A
shifting cultivation
B
intensive cultivation
C
extensive cultivation
D
taungya cultivation

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