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Shifting cultivation is a farming system
where farmers move on from one place to
another. The most common form is
slash-and-burn agriculture: land is cleared
by burning, so that crops can be grown. After
a few years, soil fertility is reduced and
the land is abandoned. A new area is cleared
while the old land recovers its fertility.
Subject by: Shaun Jay