Question

'Slash and Burn' agriculture refer to ............​

Answer 1

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Slash-and-burn agriculture (Peters and Neuenschwander 1988; Palm et al 2005), also called swidden (Mertz et al 2009) or shifting agriculture or cultivation (Nye and Greenland 1960; Robison and McKean 1992; Aweto 2013), typically refers to land uses where a cropping period is rotated with a fallow period that is long ...

Answer 2

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Slash-and-burn agriculture, method of cultivation in which forests are burned and cleared for planting. Slash-and-burn agriculture is often used by tropical-forest root-crop farmers in various parts of the world and by dry-rice cultivators of the forested hill country of Southeast Asia.