HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: Shifting cultivation is used throughout South America, but it gains the most attention for its use in Brazil. In Brazil, shifting cultivation and unsustainable variations of the practice are used for large-scale agriculture and clearing forests to make room for cattle grazing.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shifting cultivation is mainly practised in the humid tropical areas of sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and Central and South America. Shifting cultivators grow various crops on one plot of land in a process known as intercropping.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shifting Cultivation is known as Ladang in Indonesia, Caingin in Philippines, Milpa in central America & Mexico, Ray in Vietnam, Taungya In Myanmar, Tamrai in Thailand, Chena in Sri Lanka, Conuco in Venezuela, Roca in Brazil, Masole in central Africa.

Detailed explanation-4: -Their land, due to remoteness, poor access to markets and undulating terrain, leaves them with few alternatives.