What is shifting cultivation and its …

Shifting cultivation is a form of agriculture which involves clearing of a plot of land by cutting of trees and burning them. The ashes are then mixed with the soil and crops are grown. After the land has lost its fertility, it is abandoned.  The farmers then move to a new place.
Advantages:

• The best advantage of the shifting of the cultivation or the land on the hills side that is to provide the very easy and very fast method of the preparation of the land for the agriculture.
• The waste material of the field that is the bush and the weeds can be removed easily and that can be burn easily and can be obtaining the beneficial things for the cultivation. In this shifting cultivation the growth of the crops will start fast and in the sometimes only it will get ready for the harvest.
• In this shifting of the cultivation there is no any fear or the danger for the flood and the animals which destroy the crops. On the hills there are the streams of the mountain which provide the water to the crops easily on the regular and normal rate.