Question

Shifting cultivation foyr types

Answer 1

Shifting cultivation is a low-input system of arable farming that is practice in large areas of the humid and sub-humid tropics. The major characteristics of shifting cultivation are summarized and briefly examined. The main features of shifting cultivation cycle in forest and savanna lowlands of the tropics as well as the specific variants of the system are described. The different forms of shifting cultivation described include slash-and-burn type of shifting cultivation, the chitemene system, the Hmong system, shifting cultivation cycle in the Orinoco floodplain, the slash-mulch system, and the plough-in-slash system.