| 单词 | shifting cultivation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshifting cultivation shifting cultivation n. any of several forms of agriculture in which an area of ground is cleared of vegetation and cultivated for a (usually small) number of years and then abandoned because of nomadic habits or deliberate fallowing or because the yield of crop has become uneconomic, when cultivation is begun elsewhere. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] > systems of cultivation round tilth1723 infield and outfield1733 terrace1796 superculture1835 terrace-cultivation1860 terrace-culture1863 conservation tillage1897 monoculture1901 strip farming1913 polyculture1915 sailab1916 shifting cultivation1922 strip-cultivation1932 shifting agriculture1934 strip-cropping1936 podu1938 contour terracing1939 strip system1954 swiddening1971 monocropping1974 1922 W. Schlich Man. Forestry (ed. 4) I. 274 Rules drawn up to control shifting cultivation (chena). 1952 P. W. Richards Trop. Rain Forest xvii. 378 The destruction of the primary forest which gives rise to secondary successions may take place in different ways and for various reasons. By far the most important cause of destruction up to the present has been the system of shifting cultivation (the ladang system of Malaysia and the taunggya system of Burma) which is practised by nearly all the native peoples of the tropics. 1971 J. H. Galloway in H. Blakemore & C. T. Smith Lat. Amer. viii. 382 Much of the agriculture of Mato Grosso and Goiás is still primitive, unproductive shifting cultivation. < as lemmas |
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