Question

What is shifting cultivation what are its advantages?

Answer 1

Answer:

Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which areas of land are cultivated for a short time. Then they are left to grow back their natural vegetation, while the farmer moves to another area.

Advantages:

1. This method helps to eliminate weeds, insects and other germs effecting the soil.

2. Shifting cultivation allows for farming in areas with dense vegetation, low soil nutrients content, uncontrollable pests.

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Answer 2

Shifting cultivation is the type of farming in which agricultural activities are shifted from one field to another when the fertility of the soil of the former is dimeninished.

Disadvantages:-

• Deforestation.
• Small patches for cultivation.
• Soil erosion.
• Not sufficient for feeding large population.