what is shifting cultivation? what are its disadvantages?
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what is shifting cultivation? what are its disadvantages?
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Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which a person uses a piece of land, only to abandon or alter the initial use a short time later. This system often involves clearing of a piece of land followed by several years of wood harvesting or farming until the soil loses fertility.
After the soil loses its fertility, the land is abandoned and the cultivator moves to a new plot. The major disadvantage of Shifting Cultivation is that many trees in the forest are cut and this increases soil infertility and leads to soil erosion.
Swidden agriculture, also known as shifting cultivation, refers to a technique of rotational farming in which land is cleared for cultivation (normally by fire) . One major disadvantage of shifting cultivation, also known as SLASH & BURN,is that large areas of land are made vulnerable to soil erosion. Better still, slash and burn requires more intense labor at the beginning of each planting season, since the clearing up of a new farm site each year is a matter of must.
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