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Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned. This system often involves clearing of a piece of land followed by several years of wood harvesting or farming, until the soil loses fertility. Once the land becomes inadequate for crop production, it is left to be reclaimed by natural vegetation, or sometimes converted to a different long-term cyclical farming practice.
they work by using the slash and burn cycle this means they take a part of a forest slash the trees down and burn it to get more minerals when the make it into a patch. And after a few years they move on after the crop drops and do the same thing again!

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