HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Shifting cultivation is a mode of farming long followed in the humid tropics of Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America. In the practice of “slash and burn”, farmers would cut the native vegetation and burn it, then plant crops in the exposed, ash-fertilized soil for two or three seasons in succession.

Detailed explanation-2: -Swidden agriculture, also known as shifting cultivation, refers to a technique of rotational farming in which land is cleared for cultivation (normally by fire) and then left to regenerate after a few years.

Detailed explanation-3: -The different forms of shifting cultivation described include slash-and-burn type of shifting cultivation, the chitemene system, the Hmong system, shifting cultivation cycle in the Orinoco floodplain, the slash-mulch system, and the plough-in-slash system.

Detailed explanation-4: -Swidden agriculture-Swidden cultivation is the cultivation which uses the technique of “slash and burn”. A piece of land is temporarily used for cultivation and then is abandoned. This is the other name of shifting cultivation.