In which region is the practice of shifting cultivation locally known as 'Milpa'?

Explanation

Shifting cultivation is known by different local names across regions, and Milpa is the name tied to Mexico and Central America. The cited FAO GIAHS page supports this regional link by identifying the Ich Kool Mayan milpa as a system of the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, and describing the Peninsular Maya milpa as a traditional agroforestry system. That is why the answer is Central America / Mexico rather than a broad tropical-region guess. The same naming pattern helps eliminate the other options: Jhum belongs to Northeast India, Ladang to Malaysia and Indonesia, Chitemene to the Zambia-Congo belt, and Conuco to Venezuela.

Why the other options are wrong

• (A) Africa is not the Milpa region in this naming set; shifting cultivation there is identified with Chitemene, especially in the Zambia-Congo belt.
• (B) South-East Asia is wrong because the relevant local name in Malaysia and Indonesia is Ladang, not Milpa.
• (D) South Asia is wrong because shifting cultivation in Northeast India is known as Jhum, not Milpa.

Concept

This tests the world-geography habit of linking agricultural practices with their regional names. RAS repeatedly asks such terms because they check both human geography and regional association, not just definitions.

Source

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems

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