jumming

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A form of jhumming — The practice of cutting down and burning the vegetation from an area of forest in order to create farmable land.

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nounjumming (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of jhumming.

    Jumming, a particular type of agriculture requiring burning of forest to prepare floor for farming has been prohibited in the Madhupur Garh Forest from the 1950s but continues to be practiced in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

    1998, B. K. Roy Burman, B. G. Verghese, Aspiring to be: the tribal, indigenous condition, page 189
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