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Shifting cultivation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For methods, see slash and burn Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned. This system often involves clearing of a piece of land...
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Shifting Cultivation is practiced by primitive tribes in the forested highlands of the Amazon Basin, Congo Basin, Papua New Guinea, etc. While cultivated using shifting cultivation, tropical/equatorial rainforest nutrient is mainly locked up in the biomass with little nutrient in the soil.
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Shifting cultivation is a type of farming in which the land under cultivation is periodically shifted so that fields that were previously cropped are left fallow and subject to the encroaching forest. It is an original method of making use of land and can still be found today in the tropical rain forests.
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Shifting Cultivation in Northern Thailand ... Table of contents (50 p.) ... RESOURCE SYSTEMS THEORY AND METHODOLOGY SERIES, NO. 3; Possibilities for Development...
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about shifting cultivation. shifting cultivation. Information about shifting cultivation in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... shifting for; Shifting Gears; Shifting Gears (DJ Z-Trip album); shifting ground; shifting ground; shifting ground; shifting ground; shifting ground;
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This article has been adapted from FAO Forestry Paper 50, Changes in shifting cultivation in Africa. ... Shifting cultivation in a variety of forms has been practiced successfully and safely for centuries, fully adapted to the specific climatic and edaphic conditions prevailing in a given forest region.
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Extracts from a case study prepared in connection with a general FAO enquiry on shifting cultivation ... In general, the type of agriculture traditional throughout the country before the penetration of European influence can be classed as shifting cultivation. This primitive agriculture was on a bare subsistence level.
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Soil Erosion in Shifting Cultivation Area at Doi Chiangdao Watershed ... Soil erosion in the shifting cultivation areas was studied from 1969-1975. The average amount of soil erosions in the areas planted with sesame, soy bean, rice, corn and control plot for 3 successive years (1969-1971) were 9.34, 7.45, 6.03,
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; Farming system where farmers move on from one place to another when the land becomes exhausted. The most common form is slash-and-burn agriculture: land is cleared by burning, so that crops can be grown. After a few years, ... Slash-and-burn is practised in many tropical forest areas, ... A variation of this system,
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Other Free Encyclopedias :: Science Encyclopedia :: Science Encyclopedia Vol 5 :: Slash-and-Burn Agriculture - Shifting Cultivation, Problems Of Tropical Deforestation...
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