shifting cultivation
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MEWAR UNIVERSITY
What is shifting cultivation?Shifting cultivation is a farming
system where farmers move on from one place to another when the land becomes exhausted.
Shifting Cultivation is often practiced by primitive tribes in the forested highlands of the Amazon Basin, Congo Basin, etc
The most common form is slash-and-burn
Characteristics of shifting cultivation
Making a Clearing.
Growing Crops.
Abandoning the Clearing.
Steps of shifting cultivationSite selection SlashingBurningCleaning and fencingWeedingHarvesting
Slash and burn
Environmental EffectsDeforestationsoil erosionloss of biodiversity
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