What are the characteristics of shifting cultivation?

      

List the characteristics of shifting cultivation.

  

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Maurice
(i) Vegetation is cleared by slashing and burning.

(ii) There is the use of little or no manure.

(iii) The yields decline after a certain period of continuous use.

(iv) Both the settlements and plots are temporary.

(v) The farmers use simple implements.

(vi) Plots are small and scattered.

(vii) Cultivation is mainly for subsistence.

(viii) Farming depends mainly on family labour.

(ix) The land is abandoned when the yields decline.

(x) The land is communally owned.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on June 13, 2017 at 11:19


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