what is shifting cultivation? what are its disadvantages?
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shifting agriculture is a system of subsitence agriculture which is mostly practiced by tribal communities living in tribal hilly regions. in this system a plot of land is cleared and cultivated for a short period till the fertility of the land gets exhausted.
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there are also disadvantages of shifting agriculture that beacuse of shifting agriculture, the fertility of land gets exhausted and no nutrients are left in the soil. so, no crops can now be grown in the soil.
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what is shifting cultivation??
Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plot of land are cultivator temporally, then abandoned while post disturbance fallow vegetation is allowed freely grow while cultivator moves on to another plot.
disadvantages of shifting cultivation are.,
primary disadvantage of shifting cultivation, also called slash or burn or swidden agriculture, is the destruction of large areas of land, primary crop fields and tracts of forest. When performed improperly, slash and Burn can make once fertile land unable to support the new growth of crops and plants.