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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 ...
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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 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. ... Print Email Bookmark...
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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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Agriculture question: What is shifting cultivation? Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, ...
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The slash-and-burn method differs from a much more ancient system known as shifting cultivation. Shifting cultivation has long been used by humans for subsistence agriculture in tropical forests worldwide, and variants of this system are known as swidden in Africa, as caingin in the Philippines, as milpa in Central...
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SHIFTING CULTIVATION: Review the definition, meaning, pronunciation, explanation, synonyms, and antonyms of the term SHIFTING CULTIVATION in the Online Dictionary. ... (swidden, slash and burn) a form of plant cultivation in which seeds are planted in the fertile soil prepared by cutting and burning the natural growth;
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The dynamics of the shifting cultivation, rural poor, cattle complex on marginal lands in the humid tropics; Considerations of social, economic, institutional, and legal aspects of agro-forestry in Venezuela; Observations on indigenous and modern agro-forestry activities in west Africa; Some policy implications of...
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Agro-forestry in shifting cultivation control programmes in India ... About 7000 B.C., according to the archaeological evidence (Childe 1956) mankind began to change its mode of life from food gathering to food cultivation, by adopting shifting cultivation which is, historically, a transitional stage towards more...
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