Sustainable Agriculture Development in Mizoram:

The hill slopes in Mizoram is much steeper as compared to other hill states in the North East, thereby causing constraints to cultivation of crops. The physiography of Mizoram can be broadly divided into Hills, Valleys and Flat lands. Agriculture is the mainstay of the people of Mizoram. About 70% of the people depend on Agriculture. The primitive method of shifting cultivation known as ‘jhuming’ is still practised in Mizoram. Due to the ever-increasing population with no simultaneous increase in the available land it has become impossible to have a long cycle. Jhum is cut for the ensuing year and the following year it has to be abandoned and fresh areas are cut for the next year's cultivation. In jhum only annual and seasonal crops are raised as it is shifted every year. A number of agricultural development programmes have been implemented in the State in an attempt to attain self-sufficiency in food grains and other requirements of day-to-day life connected with agricultural practices.