Question

Shifting agriculture is waste-full method of agriculture. Give geographical reasons.

Answer 1

Shifting agriculture is a wasteful method of cultivation because it causes forest loss. It is one of the most cause of deforestation. It is the greatest enemy of forest.

Answer 2

Answer:

Shifting agriculture is the type of Agriculture which is normally done in tropical Africa whereby a piece of land cleared the cultivated for a period of time and then abandoned for another until it gains its fertility and then it is cultivated again later.

Explanation:

This is waste-full method because of the following reasons:

• It leads to deforestation and loss of vegetation since the clearing of the land process is dangerous.

• The method equally leads to soil erosion as well as the nature in which every part of the region becoming infertile.

• The method is time consuming as its leads to waste-full in human geography.