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单词 shifting cultivation
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Definition of shifting cultivation in English:

shifting cultivation

(also shifting agriculture)
noun
mass noun
  • A form of agriculture, used especially in tropical Africa, in which an area of ground is cleared of vegetation and cultivated for a few years and then abandoned for a new area until its fertility has been naturally restored.

    (尤指非洲热带地区的)轮垦

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They practise shifting cultivation, periodically clearing the forest to grow millet, maize and pulses.
    • This thinly populated area has 237 villages of which 205 have settlements and the remaining are abandoned due to shifting cultivation habit among the tribals.
    • They depend on shifting agriculture, complemented by animal husbandry, hunting, fishing, and gathering for their livelihood.
    • Australian aboriginal people never practiced agriculture, so did not cut the rainforest for shifting cultivation, as occurs in rainforests in many other tropical regions.
    • Many slash-and-burn farmers are in a rapid transition from shifting cultivation to settled hill-rice agriculture and even to intensive farming.

Definition of shifting cultivation in US English:

shifting cultivation

(also shifting agriculture)
nounSHiftiNG ˌkəltəˈvāSHənʃɪftɪŋ ˌkəltəˈveɪʃən
  • A form of agriculture, used especially in tropical Africa, in which an area of ground is cleared of vegetation and cultivated for a few years and then abandoned for a new area until its fertility has been naturally restored.

    (尤指非洲热带地区的)轮垦

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This thinly populated area has 237 villages of which 205 have settlements and the remaining are abandoned due to shifting cultivation habit among the tribals.
    • Australian aboriginal people never practiced agriculture, so did not cut the rainforest for shifting cultivation, as occurs in rainforests in many other tropical regions.
    • They practise shifting cultivation, periodically clearing the forest to grow millet, maize and pulses.
    • They depend on shifting agriculture, complemented by animal husbandry, hunting, fishing, and gathering for their livelihood.
    • Many slash-and-burn farmers are in a rapid transition from shifting cultivation to settled hill-rice agriculture and even to intensive farming.
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