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Also known as ... Slash and Burn Agriculture Today ... Slash and burn agriculture is particularly important throughout the tropics where, when done properly, it can provide people with a secure source of food and income and has been shown to be sustainable over long periods of time.
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www.eoearth.org/article/slash_and_burn
www.eoearth.org/article/slash_and_burn
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slashburn SLASH AND BURN AGRICULTURE The practice of slash-and-burn agriculture consists of clearing plots from the forest and allowing the cut vegetation to dry, then burning, and finally planting crops in the ashes (Figure 1). Plots are used for a few years and then are gradually abandoned to natural vegetation...
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www.cnr.vt.edu/lsg/Intro/S&B.pdf
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[ Slash & Burn Agriculture ] [ From the Seat of the Bulldozer ] [ Regrowth in a Tropical Rainforest ]; [ Data Collection in the Amazon ] [ Colonization of the Rainforest ] [ Loving the Rainforest to Death ];
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www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/troppois/tpslashburn.html
www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/troppois/tpslashburn.html
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They practiced a kind of agriculture called slash and burn. ... Slash and burn sounds terribly hard on the environment, but--if done properly--it is one of the most ecologically harmonious methods of cultivation. Farmers clear the land by slashing the trees and bushes, then burning them to release nutrients into the soil.
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www.eduweb.com/agriculture/ag1.html
www.eduweb.com/agriculture/ag1.html
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In northeast India, where about 9,000-10,000 wild elephants live, and to a lesser extent in central India, the tribal people still practice this form of agriculture. A forest patch is chosen, all the vegetation slashed and burnt and the area is cultivated for one or two years and then ... ; Slash and Burn Agriculture...
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www.elephants.com/a_slash.htm
www.elephants.com/a_slash.htm
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Farmers that have trees planted will not destroy them through the traditional burning of the land. However, slash & burn agriculture is still practiced by a number of farmers as witnessed by the photographs below taken in June 1999 on the road between Playa Grande and Ingenieros.
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home.earthlink.net/~jschenck/Q__Quema_1.html
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Juan Guevera is helping farmers in the Pucallpa area get involved with aquaculture, or fish farming, as an alternative to slash-and-burn agriculture. The farmers build fish ponds and Guevera’s agency, called IVITA, provides them with advice and with fingerlings.
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www.solutions-site.org/cat1_sol3.htm
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In slash-and-burn agriculture, you first go through the thick tree cover with a machete and chop all the vegetation. That’s the slash. Then, you come back a few days or weeks later, when the vegetation has died and dried out a bit, and you start a big fire, like this one.
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An overview of slash and burn agriculture, used by subsistence farmers to provide temporary fertility to the soil by burning plants. This slash and burn overview is from the About.com expert Geography site. ... Geography of Slash and Burn Agriculture...
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geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/slashbu...
geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/slashburn.htm
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