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What best explains why subsistence farmers continue to use slash-and-burn techniques in the Amazon River Basin?
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Slash and burning is still used in the Amazon, because the burning of plants creates ash, which when washed into the soil by rain water, creates a temporary, natural fertiliser.
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Tradition.
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