Question

What was known as shifting cultivation?​

Answer 1

Answer:

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.

Answer 2

ANSWER -:

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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.

Once the land becomes inadequate for

crop production, it is left to be reclaimed

by natural vegetation, or sometimes

converted to a different long term

cyclical farming practice.

This system of agriculture is often

practised at the level of an individual or

family, but sometimes may involve an

entire village.

An estimated population exceeding 250

million people derive subsistence from

the practice of shifting cultivation, and

ecological consequences are often

deleterious.
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