slash-and-burn agriculture
1slash-and-burn agriculture — ▪ agriculture method of cultivation often used by tropical forest root crop farmers in various parts of the world and by dry rice cultivators of the forested hill country of Southeast Asia. Areas of the forest are burned and cleared for… …
2slash-and-burn agriculture — The cutting down and burning of tropical vegetation to make mineral nutrients available for use by introduced agricultural crops …
3Slash and burn — consists of cutting and burning of forests or woodlands to create fields for agriculture or pasture for livestock, or for a variety of other purposes. It is sometimes part of shifting cultivation agriculture, and of transhumance livestock herding …
4slash and burn — UK US adjective slash and burn farming involves cutting down and burning trees and old plants in order to plant new crops slash and burn agriculture Thesaurus: general words for farming, and types of farminghyponym …
5slash-and-burn — adjective slash and burn farming involves cutting down and burning trees in order to plant crops: slash and burn agriculture …
6Slash-and-burn — This article is about slash and burn farming. For shifting cultivation, see shifting cultivation. For the Manic Street Preachers single, see Slash n Burn. Not to be confused with scorched earth. Slash and burn practices in Eno, Finland, 1893 …
7slash and burn — UK / US adjective slash and burn farming involves cutting down and burning trees and old plants in order to plant new crops slash and burn agriculture …
8slash-and-burn — [slash′ən bʉrn′] adj. 1. of or having to do with a type of primitive forest agriculture in which fields are cleared by cutting down and burning vegetation 2. extremely destructive in an indiscriminate way …
9slash-and-burn — slash′ and burn′ adj. 1) agr. of or noting a method of agriculture in the tropics in which vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cultivated for a few years, then abandoned to the forest 2) cvb unnecessarily destructive or extreme •… …
10slash and burn — 1. adjective Rough, coarse and lacking finesse, performed with little skill. His slash and burn approach to management resulted in few friends and many enemies. 2. noun A technique in agriculture where plant matter is roughly cut down and then… …
