Shifting Cultivation

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Shifting Cultivation

• What is it?
• Is it a practice of sustainable agricultural
  practice?

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Shifting Cultivators

• Primitive
• Simple farming techniques

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Farming Cycle of Shifting Cultivation
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General Farming Methods

• Product - wet rice
• deforestation and terraced
• water sops the soils
• hand transplanting
• hand harvesting
• product diversification

simple
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Discussion

• C.O. Sauer, a famous geographer, commented
  shifting cultivation, in its basic procedure and
  crop assemblages to be most conservative of
  fertility at high level of yeids that being
  protective and intensive. We might consider it
  as being fully suited to physical and cultural
  conditions of the areas where it exists.

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Answer

• Yes, nutrients are stored in the biomass.
  Shifting cultivators burn the trees and unlock
  the nutrients for the crops. After that, the
  land is abandoned for the forest to regenerate.

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• Why does shifting cultivation become ecological
  destructive (no longer sustainable farming
  practice)?