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shifting cultivation
noun
- a land-use system, esp in tropical Africa, in which a tract of land is cultivated until its fertility diminishes, when it is abandoned until this is restored naturally
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In this manner the habit of shifting cultivation is accorded divine sanction.
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The tribe are cultivators and farmservants, and practise shifting cultivation.
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One who practises bewar or shifting cultivation in a forest.
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They are a backward tribe and practise shifting cultivation on burnt-out patches of forest.
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They are practically a forest tribe and carry on shifting cultivation like the Khonds.
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