{"id":369,"date":"2020-12-30T13:42:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T13:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/shifting-cultivation\/"},"modified":"2020-12-30T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T13:42:36","slug":"shifting-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/shifting-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting Cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the movement of a farmer from one piece of <a href=\"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/land\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Before the invention of two-way ploughs soil could only be turned one way. For convenience fields were divided into sections called lands which were ploughed by going round and around turning the soil to the middle. Lands were sited in different places each year.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">land<\/a> to another after years of cultivation, as a result of soil degradation associated with soil mining. It is responsible for almost 70% of deforestation in Tropical Africa, and together with the relate bush-<a href=\"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/fallow\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"left without tilling or sowing after plowing\" class=\"encyclopedia\">fallow<\/a> slash-and-burn cultivation system, disturbs more <a href=\"https:\/\/gro-ezy.com\/index.php\/encyclopedia\/land\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Before the invention of two-way ploughs soil could only be turned one way. For convenience fields were divided into sections called lands which were ploughed by going round and around turning the soil to the middle. Lands were sited in different places each year.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">land<\/a> than is actually needed for farming. It is primitive and unsustainable; because it promotes soil mining and is largely not commercially oriented. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the movement of a farmer from one piece of land to another after years of cultivation, as a result of soil degradation associated with soil mining. 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