shifting cultivation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned (usually when the soil shows signs of exhaustion, or when overrun by weeds) and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation.

Word forms

shifting cultivation
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