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Shifting cultivation
Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation 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 length of time that a 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).
Of these cultivators, many 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. Trees and bushes 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
==Advantages of slash-and-burn method.==
Slash-and-burn is a very sustainable technique. It differs a lot from commercial farming, because once the trees are burned, there is very fertile fine ash that deposits along the humus, meaning that by the time the other fields are burned, the soil has time to reassemble nutriments, in order to make cultural activity possible. Although slash-and-burn is a very useful technique, there are other ways of fertilizing soil. By planting beans, the soil will regenerate much faster, due to the production of nitrogen in their roots.
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