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What is shifting cultivation?Shifting cultivation is a farming

system where farmers move on from one place to another when the land becomes exhausted.

Shifting Cultivation is often practiced by primitive tribes in the forested highlands of the Amazon Basin, Congo Basin, etc

The most common form is slash-and-burn

Characteristics of shifting cultivation

Making a Clearing.

Growing Crops.

Abandoning the Clearing.

Steps of shifting cultivationSite selection SlashingBurningCleaning and fencingWeedingHarvesting

Slash and burn

Environmental EffectsDeforestationsoil erosionloss of biodiversity

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