State the main characteristics of shifting cultivation.

State the main characteristics of shifting cultivation.

  1. Characteristics of shifting cultivation.
  2. When fertility of the soil goes down crops are not grown again until fertility is restored.
  3. Plenty of lands is available to the farming community
  4. Practicable with annual crops not with perennials.
  5. Agricultural output from the whole system is low / subsistence production.
  6. Input such as pesticides, fungicides, and fertilizers are rarely used / build-up of pests and diseases is avoided by periodic movements to the new lands.
  7. Use of simple hand tools.

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