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what is shifting cultivation?what are its disadvantages?​

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Answered by vipuldubey706838
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Shifting cultivation. Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which a person uses a piece of land, only to abandon or alter the initial use a short time later. This system often involves clearing of a piece of land followed by several years of wood harvesting or farming until the soil loses fertility

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Disadvantages

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. This increases soil infertility and leads to soil erosion.

Answered by MrPõisoñ
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Shifting cultivation:--)

Shifting cultivation is a form of agriculture which involves clearing of a plot of land by cutting of trees and burning them.

The ashes are then mixed with the soil and crops are grown. After the land has lost its fertility, it is abandoned. The farmers then move to a new place.

The disadvantages of shifting cultivation are-)

it leads to loss of soil fertility , it leads to burning and cutting of trees and advantages the waste material like bush and weeds are easily removed from field and in shifting cultivation there is no fear or the danger for the flood .

Explanation: I hope this will help uhh !

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