Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned while post-disturbance fallow vegetation...
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Agriculture (redirect from Cultivation of the land)
the farmer. Shifting cultivation (or slash and burn) is a system in which forests are burnt, releasing nutrients to support cultivation of annual and...
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Farming systems in India (section Shifting cultivation)
crops can be produced such as rice, sugarcane, wheat and tobacco. Shifting cultivation is a type of subsistence farming where a plot of land is cultivated...
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Chittagong Hill Tracts (section Tobacco cultivation)
cultivation in sloping land, shifting cultivation and logging. Shifting cultivation, also known as slash-and-burn agriculture or swidden cultivation,...
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Slash-and-burn (redirect from Jhum cultivation)
practice is known as jhum or jhoom. Slash-and-burn is a type of shifting cultivation, an agricultural system in which farmers routinely move from one...
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integrated into the nation states. The hill people often practice shifting cultivation. Scott states that this is to evade taxation, but a simpler explanation...
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extreme are the extensive slash-and-burn methods of brush clearing and shifting cultivation in the south and the east. In the forested areas of the eastern coast...
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Nukak (section Shifting cultivation)
hunter-gatherers with seasonal nomadic patterns and practice small-scale shifting horticulture. They were classified as "uncontacted people" until 1981,...
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Subsistence agriculture (redirect from Subsistence cultivation)
erosion. Shifting cultivation is called dredd in India, ladang in Indonesia and jhumming in North East India. [citation needed]While shifting agriculture's...
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months of the year, each of which is a stage of shifting cultivation. In modern times, shift cultivation is a significant threat to the biodiversity of...
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