Question

what is shifting cultivation?name one problem associated with it?

Answer 1

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Shifting cultivation, also known as slash and burn cultivation, is when a a piece of land is used for a few years until it is fertile enough to give proper yields, and then is burnt on loosing fertility.

This causes pollution, wastage of land.

Answer 2

Shifting cultivation is a type of agricultural in which a ground is cleared for growing crops and after few years it is abandoned for a new area until its fertility has been naturally restored. The negative effect is the large scale deforestation.