Question

Explain what is shifting cultivation why did European forests regard this practice as harmful for forests

Answer 1

Answer: shift cultivation is an agriculture system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily,then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation while the cultivators moves on to another plot. In some areas, cultivators use a practice is slash and burn as one element of their farming cycle.

Explanation:

Europeans foresters regarded shifting cultivation harmful for forests because they felt that land which was used for cultivation every few years could not grow trees for railway timber. Besides the burning of trees may result in spreading of fire into the forest destroying valuable timber