Question

What is shifting agriculture and why did European regarded shifting agriculture is harmful for forest

Answer 1

Shifting agriculture was followed by the tribes in a part of land in forest was burnt for the agriculture and after some years the yield of land decreases so the tribes moves to another place. It was harmful for forest because- 1. It was harmful for environment and animals. 2. Forest provide europians raw material for there industries like wood and timber. 3. It provide various valueable reasources like dry leaves , wood pulp for paper and rubber for elastic

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

Shifting agriculture or swidden agriculture is a traditional agricultural practice in many parts of Asia, Africa and South America. It has many local names such as ‘lading’ in South-East Asia, ‘milpa’ in Central America, ‘chitemene’ or ‘tavy’ in Africa, ‘chena’ in Sril Lanka, ‘dhya’, ‘penda’, ‘bewar’, ‘nevad’, ‘jhum’, ‘podu’, ‘khandad’ and ‘kumri’ in India.

In shifting cultivation, parts of a forest are cut and burnt in rotation, seeds are sown in ashes after the first monsoon rains and the crop is harvested by October-November. Such plots are cultivated for a couple of years and then left fallow for 12 to 18 years for the forest to grow back.

It was regarded by the British as harmful for the forests. They felt that land which was used for cultivation every few years could not grow trees for railway timber. When the forest was burnt, there was the danger of the flames spreading and burning valuable timber.