This article is about Shifting cultivation. For a focus on slash and burn farming methods, see Slash-and-burn.
This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations.(June 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Slash-and-burn based shifting cultivation is a widespread historical practice in southeast Asia.[1] Above is a satellite image of Sumatra and Borneo showing shift cultivation fires from October 2006.
Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned while post-disturbance fallow vegetation is allowed to freely grow while the cultivator moves on to another plot. The period of cultivation is usually terminated when the soil shows signs of exhaustion or, more commonly, when the field is overrun by weeds. The period of time during which the field is cultivated is usually shorter than the period over which the land is allowed to regenerate by lying fallow.
This technique is often used in LEDCs (Less Economically Developed Countries) or LICs (Low Income Countries). In some areas, cultivators 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 and need to lie fallow.
In shifting agriculture, after two or three years of producing vegetable and grain crops on cleared land, the migrants abandon it for another plot. Land is often cleared by slash-and-burn methods—trees, bushes and forests are cleared by slashing, and the remaining vegetation is burnt. The ashes add potash to the soil. Then the seeds are sown after the rains.
^Spencer, J. E. (1966), Shifting cultivation in southeastern Asia (Vol. 19), University of California Press, ISBN 978-0520035171
and 28 Related for: Shifting cultivation information
Shiftingcultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned while post-disturbance fallow vegetation...
crops can be produced such as rice, sugarcane, wheat and tobacco. Shiftingcultivation is a type of subsistence farming where a plot of land is cultivated...
the farmer. Shiftingcultivation (or slash and burn) is a system in which forests are burnt, releasing nutrients to support cultivation of annual and...
integrated into the nation states. The hill people often practice shiftingcultivation. Scott states that this is to evade taxation, but a simpler explanation...
erosion. Shiftingcultivation is called dredd in India, ladang in Indonesia and jhumming in North East India. [citation needed]While shifting agriculture's...
months of the year, each of which is a stage of shiftingcultivation. In modern times, shiftcultivation is a significant threat to the biodiversity of...
Jhum cultivation is the traditional shiftingcultivation farming technique that is practised in certain parts of Northeast India and also by the indigenous...
hunter-gatherers with seasonal nomadic patterns and practice small-scale shifting horticulture. They were classified as "uncontacted people" until 1981,...
classical writers have descriptions of shiftingcultivation people. Many peoples' various shiftingcultivations characterized the migration Period in Europe...
extreme are the extensive slash-and-burn methods of brush clearing and shiftingcultivation in the south and the east. In the forested areas of the eastern coast...
fallow (less than five years). The abandoned land resulting from shiftingcultivation is not included in this category. Data for 'Arable land' are not...
states. From ancient times, the locals have practiced slash-and-burn shiftingcultivation to grow food. Locally called Jhum, it supports about 450,000 families...
been slowly declining. A 2012 report estimates the proportion of shiftingcultivation area in Mizoram to be about 30% - predominant part of which was for...
gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shiftingcultivation is excluded. Data are for the year 2021, and are from the UN FAO...
slash-and-burn deforestation techniques, which are sometimes an element of shiftingcultivation agricultural systems. In biogeography, the tropics are divided into...
especially cultivation of rice, maize, and millet reached Bhutan through southern China and Northeast India. Traditionally, shiftingcultivation was an important...
forage or hunt in the forests. They also practise the podu system of shiftingcultivation on the hill slopes where they grow different varieties of rice, lentils...
Rajwars or Rajuar (also spelt as Rajuala, Rajuad) is a shiftingcultivation community. The people of this community mainly live in Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya...
Measures to be taken to reduce and ultimately eliminate the practice of shiftingcultivation by Tribals that lead to their continuous disempowerment and degradation...
of fallow syndrome. Dryland farming Crop rotation No-till farming Shiftingcultivation Shmita "What Is Fallow Ground: Are There Any Benefits Of Fallowing...
practice twenty-seven stages of hill rice farming once a year and their shiftingcultivation practices allow the forest to regenerate itself rather than to damage...
with water and transitions from practices such as agroforestry and shiftingcultivation makes land susceptible to aeolian erosion by weakening soil composition...
conveniently dovetailed with a particular method of teak cultivation. This method was shiftingcultivation or taungya. Taungya is the practice of removing the...
practice shiftingcultivation. They continued to cultivate the land with Gogo or bill-hook. Later they took up the job of settled cultivation and started...
lower Himalayan foothills. In this habitat, the Boros practised shiftingcultivation for self-sustenance and controlled forest products. To cultivate...
and the large economic contribution of women. In some regions of shiftingcultivation where polygyny is most frequently recorded, labor is often starkly...
Global Information
