Question

what is shift cultivation? what are its disadvantage​

Answer 1

Answer:

Shifting cultivation is generally practiced in the thickly forested areas. These are the areas of heavy rainfall and quick regeneration of vegetation. A plot of land is cleared by cutting the trees and burning them. The ashes are then mixed with the soil. After the soil loses its fertility, the land is abandoned and the cultivator moves to a new plot.

The major disadvantage of Shifting Cultivation is that many trees in the forest are cut and this increases soil infertility and leads to soil erosion.

Answer 2

Shifting cultivation is the method of primitive cultivation that is the primary method for the cultivation and this process is originated from the Neolithic period that in the years between 13,000 to 3,000 B.C. Hence the shifting cultivation is the best and the first way of the changing of the soil.