Q. Which of the following practices has caused maximum damage to the biodiversity of Indian forests?
A) Selective harvesting
B) Block cutting
C) Taungya cultivation
D) Jhoom cultivation
Explanation
Jhum cultivation involved felling and burning of forests, followed by cultivation of crops for few years and abandoning cultivation to allow forest regrowth, but the major disadvantages is it lose free diversity of species
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