jhum cultivation
Rotational forest farming
Jhum cultivation is a traditional farming method practiced in parts of South and Southeast Asia, particularly northeastern India.
Farmers clear forest land by cutting and burning vegetation, cultivate crops for a few seasons until soil fertility declines, then move to a new plot while the original land regenerates.
Also called slash-and-burn or shifting cultivation: Jhum cultivation has sustained hill tribes for centuries.
- swiddenBurned forest farmland
- slash-and-burnPrimitive clearing method
- milletsSmall-seeded cereal grasses
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
- maizeCob-bearing cereal crop
soil erosion · ancestral practices · community rituals · indigenous knowledge · subsistence farming · agroecology · rice · crop rotation · carbon emissions · intercropping · dryland farming · biodiversity loss · cultural heritage · oral traditions · habitat destruction · ash · fire · jungle
- Chittagong Hillsregional council, tribal autonomy
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- BandarbanGolden Temple
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- Garo
- MizoramMara
jhum cultivationintensive agriculture
High-input, high-output cultivation
commercial agriculture · mechanized farming · agribusiness · factory farming · industrial agriculture