Under ____, parts of forests are cut down and burnt in rotation.

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Under shifting agriculture, parts of forests are cut down and burnt in rotation.
European colonialism significantly impacted the practice of shifting agriculture or swidden farming. Many regions of Asia, Africa, and South America practice agriculture. A clearing in the forest, typically on hillside slopes, is created during shifting agriculture. After being chopped, the trees are burned to produce ashes. The seeds are then dispersed around the region and allowed to receive rainwater irrigation. This method was viewed as damaging to the forests by European forestry experts. They believed that land only utilised for farming sometimes could not support the growth of trees for railroad timber. Additionally, shifting cultivation made it more challenging for the government to compute taxes. Therefore, shifting cultivation was outlawed by the government.

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