What is step farming?

Question

in hilly areas ???

Answer 1

step farming is a way of effective cultivation ........it is mainly practised in the hilly or mountanious regions in order to prevent erosion........in this steps are built  and on those steps crops are cultivated so tat when rain falls the water is not able to erode the fertility of d soil...........whereas in plain region it can take away all the fertility of the soil...................therefore step farming is a very advantageous  way for the production of crops in hilly regions.

Answer 2

Step farming is more commonly known as terracing. In agriculture, a terrace is a leveled section of a hilly cultivated area, designed as a method of soil conservation to slow or prevent the rapid surface runoff of irrigation water. Often such land is formed into multiple terraces, giving a stepped appearance. The human landscapes of rice cultivation in terraces that follow the natural contours of the escarpments like contour plowing is a classic feature of the island of Bali and the Banaue Rice Terraces in Benguet, Philippines. In Peru, the Inca made use of otherwise unusable slopes by drystone walling to create terraces. This form of land use is prevalent in many countries, and is used for crops requiring a lot of water, such as rice. Terraces are also easier for both mechanical and manual sowing and harvesting than a steep slope would be.

Natural terracing, the result of small-scale erosion, is formed where cattle are grazed for long periods on steep sloping pasture. Sometimes, as a Glastonbury Tor, the result is regular enough to give an impression of archaeological artifacts.

From its origins in agriculture the practice of formally terracing a sloping site evolved in gardening. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon could have been built on an artificial mountain with stepped terraces like those on a ziggurat. At the seaside Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, the villa gardens of Julius Caesar's father-in-law fell away giving pleasant and varied views of the Bay of Naples.

Terraces were also methods of soil conservation farming for the Inca. They used a system of canals and aqueducts, and made the water flow through dry land and helped them be fertile lands.

The Incas constructed the terraces on the slopes of the Andes mountains. They cut step-like ledges into the mountainside, so they could be used as field, where they planted crops. Using terraces also stopped the rain from washing away the soil. This technique was so successful, it is still used in the Andes Mountains.

Answer 3

One way that people adapt to their environment is terrace farming.

If you have a steep-sloping hillside and this is the only land you have to grow crops on, you can terrace the hill. Then you can grow crops without everything sliding down the hillside.

This is what you are seeing that look like stair steps in the fields, It is just a way of making some flat land they can farm on.

Since ancient times, farmers have built terraces to shore up a hillside, creating several levels of farms. In a small, seemingly inhospitable place, they can grow the crops they need to grow to survive.

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Answer 4

step farming is normally in hilly areas.

as level land for crops is not available, the local inhabitants do carve out a section rather patches of irrigatable land on the hill sides normally called terraces. Step by step the hill portion is worked out the corners/edges supported by stone walls uncemented. Normally it commences from the top portion of the hill side and is gradually worked down the slope, step by step. Thus every square meter of land can be brought into cultivation with various cash crops. The soil is tight packed to avoid collapse, proper approach path is laid down to enable cultivators to move from terrace to terrace without disturbing the embarkments.So is the arrangement for irrigation suitably made. More dependence is on rain water. Hand implements are used for cultivation as heavy duty appliances are not possible to operate. It is organised from the brain wave and concepts adopted by  ancient Bybylons who constructed vast terraces to beautify cities with gardens.