Question

what is shifting cultivation?what are its advantage

Answer 1

Well in simple language shifting agriculture is the practice of selecting an uncultivated land(usually forest) near a cultivated field and setting fire to it. Burning up the entire vegetation and henceforth providing the farmers a new land fertilized with ash, leaving their old fields barren. As a matter of fact it's only advantage is toward the farmers who get a new land for crop production. Actually it's one of the most biggest causes of deforestation and environmental instability especially in developing countries with lack of agricultural land and growing population.

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Answer 2

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