Question

what is shifting cultivation and where is found?

Answer 1

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 or three years of producing vegetable and grain crops on cleared land, the migrants abandon it for another plot. Land is often cleared by slash-and-burn methods—trees, bushes and forests are cleared by slashing, and the remaining vegetation is burnt. The ashes add potash to the soil. Then the seeds are sown after the rains.

Answer 2

HEYYA FRNDS..

ADVANTAGE. .


the best advantage is to go to agriculture or land on the hill.

The waste material of the bush and weed area can be easily removed and it can be burnt easily and can be beneficial for farming. Growth of crops in this transfer will start fast and will be ready for harvest only occasionally.

In this transfer of agriculture, there is no fear or threat to flood and animals to destroy crops. Hills are mountainous streams which regularly provide water to crops at regular and normal rates.

DISADVANTAGES.


The most important and important disadvantage of transfer cultivation is to cut forests and trees which are helpful for soil erosion and it is very useful for nature.

This can affect the heavy erosion of soil and through this there is a flood in the time of reverse heavy rains coming in plain and low laying areas like Brahmaputra and Barak.

Due to transfer cultivation, it is filled with soil deficiency and reproduction capacity of 22% of soil on top of soil. This creates serious problems in the economic rate of the people. In this, permanent land is provided in the transfer cultivation...
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