Short Notes on ‘Shifting Cultivation’

(i) Parts of the forest are cut and burnt in rotation.

(ii) Seeds are sown in the ashes after the first monsoon rains and the crop is harvested by October-November.

(iii) Such plots are cultivated for a couple of years or till the time the soil retains its fertility and then abandoned or left fallow.

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(iv) A mixture of crops is grown on these plots. Example: Bargas, a forest community of Central India.