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2. Shifting Cultivation

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4. Content What is Shifting Cultivation How is it done
When & where is it done
The advantages & disadvantages
Environment effects
Bibliography

5. What is Shifting Cultivation?
-It is an ancient farming method.
-Farming system where farmers move on from one place to another when the land becomes exhausted.
-An agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned.

6. Process of Shifting cultivation
Clearing-
Cut down most of the trees at the start of the dry season.
Burning-
Burn the trees that dry out and the
burnt trees will become fertilizer
for the soil.

7. Planting-
Holes are made into the ground and drops few seeds of rice & vegetables into the holes.
Harvesting-
Crops are harvested if there has been sufficient rain for the plants to grow and mature.
Moving on-
After a few years of planting crops, the fertility of the soil declines, so they have to move to a new area and cleared & planted again.

8. Where is it done? When is it done?
Shifting cultivation is widely used on :
Grasslands
Central Africa
Northeastern South Africa
Southeast China
When is it done?
When the sites become less fertile
When the sites is invaded by weeds
When the area is hard to plant the crops

9. Advantages and Disadvantages of Shifting Cultivation
Easy to grow quickly
Not long term
Environmentally friendly because it is organic farming
Not good for land that is used only for one type of crop
Not enough food
Not cost effective
Troublesome to move around all the time
Difficult to prosper because everybody has to work for food.

10. Effects of Shifting Cultivation
devastating and far-reaching in degrading the environment
large-scale deforestation
soil and nutrient loss
invasion by weeds and other species
Deforestation

11. Bibilography
Books:
1957, The World Book Encyclopedia Volume1, p.149, World Book, Inc
*This book is an encyclopedia on farming. It has only a short paragraph of describing the shifting cultivation. However, the paragraph include many important point of shifting cultivation.

12. Websites: Shifting Cultivation, Oct 20, 2007
*The website has some description of shifting cultivation. It’s easy to understand
Advantages & Disadvantages , Oct22, 2007
*There is a table that clearly shows the advantages and disadvantages. The table help us to understand easily and define them clearly.
Rajiv Ranjan and V. P. Upadhyay 6 August Ecological problems due to shifting cultivation 23 Oct 2007.
*The website have different ideas to decrease the effects of shifting cultivation and also point out some harmful effects of shifting cultivation.

13. Any Question?

14. Quiz Time~ 1. What are the 5 steps of shifting cultivation?
2. Which place is widely using shifting cultivation?
3. List 1 advantage & disadvantage

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