Question

what are negative ecological effect of shifting cultivation​

Answer 1

1. Shifting cultivation has become non-sustainable. 2. Increase in population and pressure on agricultural land has brought huge forest under shifting cultivation. 3. Mass destruction of forest cover leads to deforestation and loss of biodiversity on environment.

Answer 2

It also causes loss or deterioration of forest cover leading to soil erosion and degradation of catchments of rivers and other water bodies. In India, this pernicious practice is still in vogue on an estimated 1.73 million hectares, largely in the ecologically fragile hilly terrains in the Northeast.