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Preferred Term:

shifting cultivation

Definition:
A farming system, common in the tropics, in which land is cleared, the debris burned, and crops grown for a relatively short period until yields decline. The land is then abandoned. The original land is cleared and cropped again after a uncontrolled fallow period of 3-20 years, usually when soil fertility has been naturally restored by woody vegetation.
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Entry Terms:
  • slash and burn agriculture
  • bush fallow systems
  • swidden agriculture
  • slash-and-burn agriculture
  • slash and burn farming
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/20559
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RDF/XMLCreated 2006-01-19, last modified 2017-09-28