Slash and burn agriculture, also known as shifting cultivation, is a method of subsistence farming that has been practiced for thousands of years in tropical and subtropical regions. It involves clearing plots of forestland, burning the cut vegetation, and planting crops for a few years before abandoning the plots to fallow for 20+ years as natural vegetation regrows. When practiced with sufficiently long fallow periods in areas with low population density, slash and burn agriculture can be sustainable and maintain high biodiversity levels. However, increasing populations have forced shorter fallow periods in some areas, making the system unsustainable and reducing yields. While criticized for its environmental impacts, advocates argue it can be productive and sustainable when practiced properly with population control and
NAME : MANZOOR NABI
COURSE : B.SC (FORESTRY)
(Semester- v)
Year:-2015-16
student at mewar university Rajasthan, India
TOPIC: SHIFTING CULTIVATION
SUB : AGROFORESTRY
CONTACT ME.........
E-mail:- manzoornabi57@gmail.com
Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned while post-disturbance fallow vegetation is allowed to freely grow while the cultivator moves on to another plot.
By: Mahedi Hasan Zahid
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NAME : MANZOOR NABI
COURSE : B.SC (FORESTRY)
(Semester- v)
Year:-2015-16
student at mewar university Rajasthan, India
TOPIC: SHIFTING CULTIVATION
SUB : AGROFORESTRY
CONTACT ME.........
E-mail:- manzoornabi57@gmail.com
Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned while post-disturbance fallow vegetation is allowed to freely grow while the cultivator moves on to another plot.
By: Mahedi Hasan Zahid
IUBAT192
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Land degradation is one of the major issues in India that leads to deterioration of land quality for agricultural production and environmental protection. Agroforestry can help to prevent land degradation while allowing continuing use of land.
Conservation agriculture is based on maximizing yield and to achieve a balance of agricultural, economic and environmental benefits.
Conservation agriculture useful for meeting future food demands and also contributing to sustainable agriculture.
Conservation agriculture helps to minimizing the negative environmental effect and equally important to increased income to help the livelihood of those employed in agril. Production.
Introduction of conservation technologies (CT) was an important break through for sustaining productivity
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Slash And Burn
1. I. SLASH AND BURN
1. Concepts
Slash and Burn agriculture is considered to be one of the oldest land use sytem (Spencer 1966). It is a
method of agriculture primarily used by tribal communities for subsistence farming for about 12,000
years ago, the time when humans stopped hunting and gathering, and started growing crops. More
recently McGrath (1987) defined shifting cultivation as “a natural resource management strategy in
which the land is in rotation to exploit the energy and nutrients of the soil-plant complex in swidden
field”. Over centuries, traditional farmers developed slash and burn agriculture systems as a solution
to poverty, soil depletion problems, and managing pests. Although the practice has long disappeared
in temperate regions, it is still common in tropical and subtropical areas and is said to be practiced by
between 200 and 500 million people, or up to 7% of the world’s population, involving up to 30% of
the global exploitable soils (Warner 1991) and nearly one-half of the land area of the tropics. In
Vietnam, ……… Slash and burn agriculture is found common in places where there are dense
vegetation such as Africa, northern South America, and Southeast Asia, typically within grasslands
and rainforests.
The practice of slash and burn agriculture is done throughout a process starting with clearing plots of
land from the forest, and leaving the cut vegetation to dry out, then burning, and finally planting crops
in the ashes. These plots of forestland are used for a few years and then are gradually abandoned to
natural vegetation for fallow periods (periods between plantings) of up to twenty or more years. In
some areas where there is too much rain or insufficient vegetation for a good burning, the slashed
vegetation is left to decompose on its own and cultivated after a long fallow.
2. Slash and Burn Agriculture cycle
Generally, the following steps are taken in slash and burn agriculture:
1. Select sites with potentials for farming
2. 2. Prepare the field by cutting down vegetation; plants that provide food or timber may be left
standing.
3. The cut vegetation is allowed to dry until just before the rainy season of the year to ensure an
effective burning
4. The plot of land is burned to remove vegetation, drive away pests, and provide nutrients for
planting.
5. Planting is done directly in the ashes left after the burn.
3. Types of Slash and Burn Agriculture
Studies have classified shifting cultivation into 3 different types:
Rotational shifting cultivation: this type of cultivation is managed on permanent basis
(i)
around the established villages in which the local farmers rotate their fields. After about
1- 2 years farming in the first plot, to avoid intensive use of land leading to severe soil
fertility depletion and increasing weed infestation, farmers decide to farm the second field
in rotation, leaving the first field to lie fallow and naturally regenerate. …?
The pioneer shifting system: It involves non-permanent villages that move into the
(ii)
primary forest for longer periods of intensive cultivation, perhaps 10-15 years. When the
soil fertility is severely depleted, the fields are ready for abandon for natural regeneration.
Farmers then move to a new location in another area with primary forest.
Both types of shifting cultivation require a lot of land since farmers have to move their crops to
new fields every years. When more farmers try to farm the land to feed the growing population,
they cannot maintain the system of crop rotation. They are forced to clear more and more forest
for their crops. For instance, in many parts of the Amazon, the population of an area has grown so
much that slash and burn is very destructive to the rain forest. In this sense, many critics claim
that slash and burn agriculture contributes to a number of reoccurring problems specific to the
environment. Deforestation or loss of forest cover is inevitable when fields are not given
3. sufficient time for vegetation to regenerate. When fields are slashed, burned and cultivated next to
each other in rapid succession, roots and temporary water storage are lost and unable to prevent
nutrients loss or desertification. Moreover, because shifting agriculture is often practices in
tropical regions where biodiversity is extremely high, it could result in biodiversity loss or
extinction of the certain species plants and animal. Animal species may be harmed or even
destroyed as their habitats are ruined by the fires of slash-and-burn. The burning of forest plots
may trap and isolate animals. Also, the continuous fires produce a large amount of smoke and ash
which travels through the air and water to be deposited on plants and in soil. One widely held
notion is that this method, by its very nature, is damaging to the environment. Prevailing
contemporary theories, however, appear to be that this technique is perfectly sustainable and is, in
fact, environmentally sensitive as long as population pressure on resources is limited--in other
words, there is no drastic reduction in the land available or a sudden increase in the population
utilising a given area. These negative aspects are interconnected, and when one happens, typically
another happens too. ……to be restricted..
However, there are advocates who argue that when slash and burn agriculture is practiced properly, it
can provide communities with a source of food and income. Shifting practice allows people to
farm in places where it is usually not possible because of dense vegetation, soil infertility, low
soil nutrient content, uncontrollable pests, etc. This system give low productivity per unit area,
but give high returns to labor, with low energy requirements.Swidden cultivation was seen to be
working with nature, “altering selected components without fundamentally modifying its overall
structure” (Harris 1969:4-8).
……………….
4. this system of agriculture is so low-yielding that the highlanders who practise it are all starving or
at least suffering from severe malnutrition.
Contrary to popular perceptions, the highlanders' way of life offers substantial food security, as
various vegetables and fruits are cultivated on hill rice plots and other dietary supplements can be
obtained from the forest by gathering leaves, plants, wild fruits, hunting and fishing. At times
when rice stocks fall low, villagers eat cultivated tubers and corn or wild tubers from the forest,
and in times of severe need there are other traditional methods of security to draw on. according
to an increasing number of ecologists, this view is profoundly misguided. A growing body of
evidence suggests that rotational shifting cultivation can be both a productive and an
environmentally sustainable way of using land in lightly populated areas. Olivier Dubois of the
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), a research group based in
London, says that this type of agriculture could be the most efficient way to use land in places
where land is plentiful but labour and capital scarce. He points to studies in Kalimantan that
demonstrate that dry rice cultivation by shifting cultivators provides far higher returns on labour-
up to 276 per cent-than the wet rice cultivation promoted by Indonesian officials. Elsewhere,
shifting cultivation, when it uses long fallow periods, can help to retain high levels of
biodiversity.
In many parts of the world land scarcity, logging, new markets and aggressive government
policies have forced shifting cultivators to shorten the period of fallow, thus turning a sustainable
form of land use into an unsustainable one. Do Dinh Sam of the Forest Science Institute in
Hanoi estimates that the number of shifting cultivators in Vietnam has fallen to around 1
million. Where the population density is high, fallows have been reduced and food yields have
dropped significantly. Replacing the long fallow of shifting cultivation with permanent
agriculture inevitably entails further losses of biodiversity.
5. Slash and burn farming is natural…..burning
The cleared plot is used for a relatively short period of time, and then left fallow for a longer
period of time so that the wild vegetation can grow again before the slash and burn process is
repeated. Therefore, this type of agriculture is also known as shifting cultivation, which requires a
lot of land for farmers to move their crops to new fields every few years. In this regard, slash and
burn agriculture is an ecologically harmonious method of cultivation only when the population
density is low and …..Expectations are moderate.
6. II. Slash and burn agriculture in Vietnam
At a local level, attitudes to so-called slash-and-burn agriculture do seem to be changing,
albeit slowly. quot;Policy makers don't wholly blame shifting cultivators for forest loss now,quot;
reflects Sam in Vietnam. Kanok Rerkasem, a coauthor of the IIED study in Thailand, says
government officials now realise that shifting cultivation may be the only means some
farmers have of maintaining production.
There have been positive signs in Indonesia too. Marcus Colchester of the British-based
World Rainforest Movement welcomes the fact that the government has blamed plantation
and logging companies rather than small farmers for this year's smoke crisis. quot;This is a very
important moment,quot; he suggests. quot;At last the focus is on big business.quot; The irony is that
virtually everyone now accepts that sustainable forestry is about far more than trees and
timber production. Biodiversity, local livelihoods and carbon storage are all seen as important
functions of forests-and these, as ecologists are now realising, are precisely the sorts of
benefits that agroforestry and rotational shifting cultivation can provide. Charlie Pyo-Smith