Question

What is the slash and burn technique?

Answer 1

Slash and burn agriculture is a widely used method of growing food in which wild or forested land is clear cut and any remaining vegetation burned. The resulting layer of ash provides the newly-cleared land with a nutrient-rich layer to help fertilize crops.

Answer 2

Answer

$\sf\bold{Slash}$ and $\sf\bold{Burn}$ is a way of cultivating land where farmers clear a piece of land by slashing or cutting down trees and bushes. These are then burnt,which releases the nutrients into the soil . Now crops are grown in this cleared field for a few years.

⠀⠀After rapeadedly using the patch of land,the soil looses its nutrients. So it is abandoned. Then they clear another plot of land to plant. In the mean time young trees grow in the old field. In this way soil fertility is retored. People can then return to it and start cultivating it again.

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