Question

shifting cultivation list to decoration of environment. Give reasons.

Answer 1

rom October 2006.

Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation while the cultivator moves on to another plot. The period of cultivation is usually terminated when the soil shows signs of exhaustion or, more commonly, when the field is overrun by weeds. The length of time that a field is cultivated is usually shorter than the period over which the land is allowed to regenerate by lying fallow. This technique is often used in LEDCs (Less Economically Developed Countries) or LICs (Low Income Countries). In some areas, cultivators use a practice of slash-and-burn as one element of their farming cycle. Others employ land clearing without any burning, and some cultivators are purely migratory and do not use any cyclical method on a given plot. Sometimes no slashing at all is needed where regrowth is purely of grasses, an outcome not uncommon when soils are near exhaustion and need to lie fallow. In shifting agriculture, after two 

Answer 2

Shifting cultivation is also known as "slash" and "burn" agriculture. In this process, trees are slashed from an area and burned out. After burning, from the ashes of the cutted trees give out nutrition to the soil and makes the land fertile. Then new plants are grown and thus shifting cultivation list to decoration of environment.