The agricultural sector, among various productive sectors, has the dubious distinction of being one of the most polluting sectors in the world. The green revolution, which is meant to enhance agricultural productivity, witnesses, in fact, the acceleration of several environmental problems such as climate change, food unsafety, biodiversity loss, soil degradation and environmental pollution. Thus, modern agriculture is said to have been associated with the loss of crop genetic resources in the Third World due to the adoption of HYV seeds and planting of the vast fields with genetically uniform cultivars. Consequently, traditional agricultural practices have regained increased attention worldwide as a climate-smart approach. Taking Focus Group Discussion and Key Informant Interviews as the primary tool for obtaining data, this paper tries to examine the age-old agricultural practice as adopted and refined by the Angami tribe of the Khonoma village of Nagaland. A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to gain the required data from the respondents. Khonoma is found to have two systems of agricultural farming, i.e., the unique and sophisticated Alder-based jhum cultivation and the terraced cultivation. Both these systems of cultivation at Khonoma have been proven to have immense positive environmental implications vis-a-vis modern agriculture.