Types of farming

Group 5:

I.

Shifting Cultivation

II.

Wet Padi Cultivation

III.

Market Gardening

IV.

High-tech farming

V.

Plantation agriculture

VI.

Oil palm cultivation

VII.

Tea Cultivation

What Is Shifting Cultivation?
 Clearing

forest to raise crops.
 It is also known as “Slash-and-burn agriculture”.

Where Is Shifting Cultivation
Found?
 Africa
 Amazon

 Most

Basin of South America

parts of Southeast Asia

Where Is Shifting Cultivation
Found?
 In
–
–

Malaysia: in all remote jungle areas, foothills, and along the river basins
About 10,000 hectares

 However,

the number is declining because of the government discouragement.

How Is Shifting Cultivation
Carried Out?
1.

Community elders select the site.

How Is Shifting Cultivation
Carried Out?
2.

Forest is cleared by fire; trees that are not burnt are hacked by using primitive tools.

How Is Shifting Cultivation
Carried Out?
3.

The ground is loosened by hoes and sticks, and the seeds are sown by hand.

How Is Shifting Cultivation
Carried Out?
4.


The crops are sown at calculated intervals.
Most of the fields do not provide enough food for the entire community all the time.

How Is Shifting Cultivation
Carried Out?
Women gathering fruit

Men hunting or fishing

How Is Shifting Cultivation
Carried Out?
5.

Harvesting and weeding are normally done by women. They use a curved knife and a weed cutter.

How Is Shifting Cultivation
Carried Out?
6.

The yields in the first year are usually good, but they reduce in later years until there is no harvest at all –
Farmers abandon the plot and shift to a new one.

How Is Shifting Cultivation
Carried Out?
7.

They repeat the same process in every new clearing.

8.

They may return to the same plot after 3-5 years.

Migratory Agriculture

Soil erosion

Secondary forest

What Is Wet Padi Cultivation?
Wet padi cultivation –