Define the term shifting agriculture.?

Question

What do you mean by shifting agriculture?
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Answer 1

Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which a person creates a piece of land with another piece of land and uses it and abandons it a short while 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, but are not as severe provided new forests are not invaded[1]. Of these cultivators, many use a practice of slash-and-burn as one element of their farming cycle. Others employ land clearing without any burning, and some cultivators are purely migratory and do not use any cyclical method on a given plot. Sometimes no slashing at all is needed where regrowth is purely of grasses, an outcome not uncommon when soils are near exhaustion.

Answer 2

Shifting agriculture=sand

lol sorry, first thing that came to my mind =)

Answer 3

it is a type of agriculture in which a plot of land is cleared and farming is done. after onecrop season, the land is remained fallow to regain its fertility. then the process is repeated for other plots

Answer 4

it was followed by tribal and ancient communities.

u cut down a section of a jungle and do farming.

when the produce from the land decreases,that piece of land is left and another new area is made for farming.

the previous land is enrichened by NATURE.

this is also known as SLASH AND BURN FARMING.