Shifting cultivation

NAME : MANZOOR NABI
COURSE : B.SC (FORESTRY)
(Semester- v)
Year:-2015-16
student at mewar university Rajasthan, India
TOPIC: SHIFTING CULTIVATION
SUB : AGROFORESTRY
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1. MEWAR UNIVERSITY NAME : MANZOOR NABI COURSE : B.SC (FORESTRY ) (Semester- v) ROLL NO : 04 TOPIC: SHIFTING CULTIVATION SUB : AGROFORESTRY SUB TO : DR. VK SOLANKI

2. 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

3. Characteristics of shifting cultivation Making a Clearing. Growing Crops. Abandoning the Clearing.

4. Steps of shifting cultivation Site selection Slashing Burning Cleaning and fencing Weeding Harvesting

5. Slash and burn

6. Environmental Effects Deforestation soil erosion loss of biodiversity

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