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Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned while post-disturbance fallow vegetation...36 KB (5,323 words) - 14:58, 22 June 2024
Shifting cultivation is called dredd in India, ladang in Indonesia and jhumming in North East India. [citation needed]While shifting agriculture's slash-and-burn...22 KB (2,663 words) - 23:39, 27 May 2024- crops. The word comes from the Telugu language. Podu is a form of shifting agriculture using slash-and-burn methods. Traditionally used on the hill-slopes...4 KB (446 words) - 05:14, 26 December 2023
Meghalaya (section Agriculture)poor. A portion of the cultivated area is under the traditional shifting agriculture known locally as Jhum cultivation. Meghalaya produced 230,000 tonnes...116 KB (12,512 words) - 04:48, 11 July 2024
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was the key development...181 KB (17,611 words) - 18:29, 7 July 2024
Farming systems in India (category Agriculture in India)deteriorating. Odisha accounts for the largest area under shifting cultivation in India. Shifting cultivation is locally known as the podu cultivation. More...23 KB (3,245 words) - 09:53, 4 November 2023
established by these people. The Dimasas were till recently agricultural, centering on shifting agriculture; but in recent times this has changed with profound...14 KB (1,515 words) - 01:57, 2 July 2024
people are their descendants. The Thami men originally engaged in shifting agriculture besides hunting and foraging. They now earn a meagre living through...5 KB (509 words) - 10:56, 25 February 2024
from the same clone. E. coca var. ipadu is specially adapted to the shifting agriculture of semi-nomadic Amazonian peoples. Since cuttings of E. coca var...6 KB (798 words) - 22:21, 8 May 2024
Cassava (category Tropical agriculture)the Caribbean islands, who grew it using a high-yielding form of shifting agriculture by the time of European contact in 1492. Cassava was a staple food...82 KB (8,208 words) - 18:34, 7 July 2024
Wapishana, Pemon, Akawaio, and Warao. Many of these peoples practised shifting agriculture alongside hunting. Historians speculate that the Arawaks and Caribs...117 KB (10,244 words) - 14:14, 5 July 2024
Deforestation (section Agriculture)greatest forest loss due to shifting agriculture was sub-Saharan Africa. The overwhelming direct cause of deforestation is agriculture. Subsistence farming is...189 KB (21,384 words) - 18:38, 11 July 2024- constituents of early artificial fertilizer. The Smith–Hughes Act of 1917 shifted agricultural education back to its vocational roots, but the scientific foundation...14 KB (1,173 words) - 13:04, 26 June 2024
upland shifting cultivation. With upland shifting agriculture (slash and burn), soils recover within 10 to 20 years but the vegetation does not. Shifting cultivation...82 KB (9,644 words) - 01:32, 12 July 2024
important. For peoples near the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River, shifting agriculture was practised, including the raising of maize, beans, and squash...146 KB (12,758 words) - 10:16, 11 July 2024
they live Madia Desh. They speak the Madia dialect of Gondi. The shifting agriculture of madia is known as jhoom. A study mentions living megalithic practices...24 KB (2,877 words) - 23:07, 19 June 2024
would have been a mixture of hunting and gathering and swidden or shifting agriculture. Speculative planting of wet rice may have taken place along the...69 KB (7,162 words) - 08:26, 12 July 2024- hunter gatherers, having also involved in shifting agriculture. However, majority of them shifted into agriculture with 91.19 percent enlisted as cultivators...8 KB (876 words) - 11:43, 1 July 2024
systems." ACP-EU Fisheries: Research Report No 8. Shifting Baselines website Shifting Baselines Blog Shifting baseline - Conservation Science Institute Anne...8 KB (899 words) - 18:28, 6 June 2024- was as follows: Hunter-gatherer type — Birhor, Korwa, Hill Kharia Shifting agriculture — Sauria Paharia, Mal Paharia Simple artisans — Mahli, Lohra, Karmali...23 KB (2,347 words) - 18:27, 12 July 2024
- sustainable population densities, shifting agriculture is ecologically very efficient, primarily because farmers do not shift to areas of primary forest but
- established by these people. The Dimasas were till recently agricultural, centering on shifting agriculture; but in recent times this has changed with profound
- will return to the original piece of land for farming after 50-100 years. Shifting cultivation used to be sustainable when the fallowing period was sufficiently