Question

What is shifting cultivation? Why did the European foresters regard this practice as harmful for the forests?
CBSE Class IX Social Science LA (5 Marks)

Answer 1

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.
Shifting cultivation was still being practised as a viable and stable form of agriculture in many parts of Europe and east into Siberia at the end of the 19th century and in some places well into the 20th century. 

Answer 2

shifting cultivation is a process In which farming is done with different lands and place until the get barren .Europeans think so because due to shifting cultivation they have to cut many of trees and land get barren very fast and many of the lands become unlawful.