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‘Slash and burn’ agriculture is shifting agriculture.

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The above statement is true.
‘Slash and burn agriculture is shifting agriculture.
It is a method of food production in which forested or wildland is cleared, and residual flora is burned. The ash layer that forms provides a nutrient-rich layer to help fertilise crops on newly cleared soil. Slash-and-burn farming is shifting cultivation in which farmers move from one cultivable region to another regularly. In contrast to more intensive land uses, where biomass is integrated into the soil by ploughing or other procedures, it is generally regarded as an extensive land use sustained over time over uncultivated territory in response to population growth (extensification).

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