Question

What is shifting cultivation? Explain its advantages and dis advantages?

Answer 1

$shifting cultivation is the type of farming that was done in ancient period ,in this type of farming cultivator will cultivate one land for a cultivation and more to other for next cultivation .
$it is also called slash or burn agriculture .
$advantages:This method helps to eliminate weeds, insects and other germs effecting the soil. Shifting cultivation allows for farming in areas with dense vegetation, low soil nutrients content, uncontrollable pests. Disadvantages: In shifting cultivation, trees in the forests are cut.
$disadvantages:The most and the important disadvantageof the shifting cultivation is that to cut the Forrest and the trees that are helpful for the soil erosion and that is very helpful for the nature. ... In this there is the rendered the permanent land in the shifting cultivation.
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Answer 2

Shifting cultivation that means the shifting of the land from the other place for the cultivation purpose. In that there is the there is the change of the place is take place that means if there is the cultivation of the land is get reduced then by shifting it we can increase this.

Advantages of Shifting Cultivation

The best advantage of the shifting of the cultivation or the land on the hills side that is to provide the very easy and fast method of the agriculture.

The waste material of the field that is the bush and the weeds can be removed easily and that can be burn easily and can be obtaining the beneficial things for the cultivation. In this shifting cultivation the growth of the crops will start fast and in the sometimes only it will get ready for the harvest.

In this shifting of the cultivation there is no any fear or the danger for the flood and the animals which destroy the crops. On the hills there are the streams of the mountain which provide the water to the crops easily on the regular and normal rate.

Disadvantage of Shifting Cultivation:

The most and the important disadvantage of the shifting cultivation is that to cut the Forrest and the trees that are helpful for the soil erosion and that is very helpful for the nature.

By this there can be the heavy erosion of the soil is get affected and by this the revers that are in the in the plain and low laying areas like the Brahmaputra and Barak get flooded in the time of the heavy rain fall.

By the shifting cultivation there is the loss of the 22 percent of the soil that is on the top of the soil and full with the fertility. This creates the serious problem in the economic rate of the peoples. In this there is the rendered the permanent land in the shifting cultivation.