Explain the term shifting cultivation
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Shifting cultivation is the type of cultivation in which peasants burn a part of field and left it for a few years so that it retains its soil fertility, and move to another area for the same practice.
Shifting cultivation is also known as slash and burn cultivation.
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The way of farming where parts of forest are cut and burn in rotation.
Seeds are down I'm the ashes after the first monsoon rrais and the crop is harvested by October-November.
Plots are cultivated for a couple of years and then left fallow from 12 to 18 years for the forest to. grow back.
A mixture of crops are grown on same plots.
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