Question

why didn't European forester's argued that the shifting cultivation is harmful for forest

Answer 1

European foresters regarded shifting cultivation harmful for forests because they felt that the land which was used for cultivation every few years could not grow trees for railway timber. Besides, the burning of trees may result in spreading of fire into the forest destroying valuable timber.

Answer 2

Beceause shifting culture is a process in which the trees were burnt down and after the first rain of monsoon seeds were grown in ashes of the burnt tree this land is cultivated only for two to three years abd left for twelve to fourteen years and in this practise the forest that are renewable resoures and needs of europeans were cut down on large area.