676. 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
✅ The correct answer is option B.
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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