The characteristics of shifting cultivation are as follows:
- Field rotations
- Fire is used to clear the land
- Land is kept fallow for a number of years in order to allow regeneration
- Seeds are sown in the ashes after the first monsoon rainfall;it is usually harvested in september-october.
- Human labour as the main input
- Draught animals are not employed
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