What is shifting cultivation what are its advantages


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What is shifting cultivation? Explain its advantages and dis advantages?

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$shifting cultivation is the type of farming that was done in ancient period ,in this type of farming cultivator will cultivate one land for a cultivation and more to other for next cultivation .
$it is also called slash or burn agriculture .
$advantages:This method helps to eliminate weeds, insects and other germs effecting the soil. Shifting cultivation allows for farming in areas with dense vegetation, low soil nutrients content, uncontrollable pests. Disadvantages: In shifting cultivation, trees in the forests are cut.
$disadvantages:The most and the important disadvantageof the shifting cultivation is that to cut the Forrest and the trees that are helpful for the soil erosion and that is very helpful for the nature. ... In this there is the rendered the permanent land in the shifting cultivation.
***hope it helps***.

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