Shifting cultivation!!

Joy, Amy, Joo Yeon

Content:

1.What is shifting cultivation?

2.Characteristics

3. Steps of shifting cultivation

4.Slash and burn

5.The advantages and disadvantages

6.Environmental Effects

7.What can we do to help?

8.Bibliography

What is shifting cultivation?

• Shifting cultivation is a farming system where farmers move on from one place to another when the land becomes exhausted.

•Shifting Cultivation is often practiced by primitive tribes in the forested highlands of the Amazon Basin, Congo Basin, etc.

•The most common form is slash-and-burn

Characteristics of shifting cultivation

• Making a Clearing.

•Growing Crops.

•Abandoning the Clearing.

Steps of shifting cultivation:

1.Site selection

2.Slashing

3.Burning

4.Cleaning and fencing

5.Weeding

6.Harvesting

Oh yeah~

Advantages DisadvantagesEasy to grow quickly Not long term

Environmentally friendly because it is organic

farming

Not good for land that is used only for one type of

crop

It is often a form of weed control.

Not enough food

It can play a part in pest management. Not cost effective

Troublesome to move around all the time

It may reduce the incidence of soil-borne diseases.

Environmental Effects

• Deforestation

• soil erosion

• loss of biodiversity

•pollution of coastal waters from oil residue and raw sewage.

How can u prevent it from happening?

• Minimize cultivation as much as possible.

• Try to use less aggressive forms of cultivation.

• Cultivate at an appropriate soil moisture content (especially when using aggressive implements)

• When you are using implements that mix soil throughout the cultivation depth, restrict the depth of working to 5 cm or less.

Bibliography: • http://203.110.68.60/documents/sourcebook/Sourcebook_eng/Volume1/09_shi

ftingnamnan_sodarack.pdf (OCT.16th)

This website clearly stated the steps of shifting cultivation with clear explanations with graphics. We find it very useful and easy to understand.

• Shifting cultivation http://library.thinkquest.org/26634/forest/farming/shiftcult.htm ((Oct 15th)

This website talks about the characteristics of shifting cultivation. This is very useful in our presentation.

• http://www.raa.nsw.gov.au/reader/vsp-soiltesting/vsp-d7.pdf?MIvalObj=6707&doctype=document&MItypeObj=application/pdf&name=/vsp-d7.pdf (Oct 15)

• This website stated the disadvantages and advantages that are used in a chart in our presentation. This websites provides us information to do the disadvantages and advantages chart.

Questions *^o^*• What is the most common form of

shifting cultivation?

• What are the characteristics of shifting cultivation?

• What does shifting cultivation affect the environment?