shifting cultivation

/SH IH1 F T IH0 NG K AH0 L T IH0 V EY0 SH AH0 N/
noun
  1. 1

    An agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned (usually when the soil shows signs of exhaustion, or when overrun by weeds) and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation.

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