1. What is it? Is it a practice of sustainable agricultural practice?
Shifting Cultivation
What is it?
Is it a practice of sustainable agricultural practice?

2. Shifting Cultivators
Primitive
Simple farming techniques

3. Farming Cycle of Shifting Cultivation

4. General Farming Methods
Product - wet rice
deforestation and terraced
water sops the soils
hand transplanting
hand harvesting
product diversification
simple

5. 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.’

6. 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.

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