Slash-and-burn agriculture
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Slash-and-burn agriculture is a form of shifting cultivation in agriculture that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden. The process begi
Slash-and-burn agriculture in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Slash-and-burn agriculture in Maaninka, Finland, in the 1920s
A recently burned area at the Telkkämäki Heritage Farm in Finland, demonstrating the technique.
Slash-and-burn in Småland, Sweden (1904)
Jhum
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Jhum or jhoom cultivation is the form of slash-and-burn agriculture that is practised in certain parts of Northeast India and by the indigenous communities in Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. It
Slash-and-burn agriculture
…more than twenty years, after which the plot can be slashed and burned again, repeating the cycle. In Bangladesh and India, the practice is known as jhum or jhoom. A rough estimate says that about 200–300 million people worldwide use slash-and-burn agricultural techniques. Slash-and-burn causes deforestation…
Jhum cultivation in Nokrek Biosphere Reserve, Meghalaya, Northeast India, 2004.
Idu-Mishmi women who practices Jhum cultivation in the Mishmi Hills of Arunachal Pradesh protects their ecosystem by not allowing to spread the fire by creating fireline.