Terrace farming is an agricultural practice that involves the use of terraces, or stepped platforms, to create a series of flat surfaces on a sloping landscape. This allows farmers to cultivate crops on land that would otherwise be too steep or rocky for traditional farming methods. Terraces can
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A terrace in agriculture is a flat surface that has been cut into hills or mountains to provide areas for the cultivation for crops, as a method of more effective farming. Terrace agriculture or cultivation is when these platforms are created successively down the terrain in a pattern that resembles the steps of a staircase. As a type of landscaping, it is called terracing.