Question

what is slash and burn farming?write its main feature?

Answer 1

Slash-and-burn agriculture, or fire–fallow cultivation, is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden. 

Salient features of this agriculture are :
(i) Forests are cleared and trees are burnt to make the land available for cultivation.
(ii) Digging stick is mainly used for cultivation.
(iii) Mainly root crops and food crops are grown for their own use.
(iv) After 2 years when the soil becomes impoverished they move to another forest area.
(v) Productivity is very low as there is less use of natural fertilisers and pesticides, etc.

Answer 2

Slash-and-burn agriculture, or fire–fallow cultivation, is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden.

feature⇨⇨⇨

❁Ash is scattered after trees have been burned to fertilise the ground.                                    ❁•Little fertiliser is added apart from the ash, so the nutrientlevels drop quickly leading to the cultivators abandoning the plot and finding a new one after 7-10 years.•                                   ❁Labour intensive little use of machines (some have chain saws).  Crops tend to be planted using digging sticks.•             ❁Crops planting between remaining tree trunks which decompose slowly adding extra nutrients into the soil.•           ❁When the clearing is abandoned it is left for many years, allowing the vegetation to recolonise.