What is shifting cultivation? What are its disadvantages

What is shifting cultivation? What are its disadvantages?

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Shifting cultivation is the type of farming in which agricultural activities are shifted from one field to another when the fertility of the soil of the former is diminished
Disadvantages:

  • Deforestation
  • Soil erosion
  • Small patches for cultivation
  • Not sufficient for feeding a large population.

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