how does farming damage the rain forest?

Question

please can you give statistical facts

Answer 1

Farming as such doesn't damage the rain forest, unless you mean logging.

The problems caused by farming are because they cut the forest back and/or burn it to clear the land for farming.

Since 1900, the amount of tropical rain forest has decreased from 1.5bn Ha to 700m Ha, while Africa has lost 45% of its forest.

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Answer 2

I lived in the Ecuador 12 years and worked down in the jungle. Rain fall about 100 in per year. A real rain forest and the co. I worked for spent 1 million dollars per month trying to keep the roads open. The jungle will take it back very quickly. I have seen fence post sprout and grow into trees. The natives clear small farms and they only last a few years and then they let it go back to the jungle. Everything grows and if u don't watch it it will eat u.

Answer 3

Where do you think all that beef that goes into macburgers etc is reared?
It's a damn sight cheaper to chop loads of rainforest down (and sell the wood) and create massive ranches there than rear the beef cattle in the USA / UK / Europe etc. I believe for comparison sake it's something like an area the size of Wales is cleared for ranching every year in the amazon rainforest.

Answer 4

Because they cut down the trees to make enough room to have fields to grow crops and keep cattle etc

Answer 5

the farmers come and clear vast amount of the rain forest so they can rear cattel on these lands.