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  2. Shifting cultivation - Wikipedia

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    Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned while post-disturbance fallow vegetation is allowed to freely grow while the cultivator moves on to another plot. The period of cultivation is usually terminated when the soil shows signs of exhaustion or, more commonly, when the ...

  3. Slash-and-burn - Wikipedia

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    Slash-and-burn is a type of shifting cultivation, an agricultural system in which farmers routinely move from one cultivable area to another. A rough estimate is that 250 million people worldwide use slash-and-burn.

  4. Jhum - Wikipedia

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    Jhum cultivation in Nokrek Biosphere Reserve, Meghalaya, Northeast India, 2004. Jhum cultivation is the traditional shifting cultivation farming technique that is practised in certain parts of Northeast India and also by the indigenous communities in Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. [1]

  5. Jhumar song - Wikipedia

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    The word Jhumar derived from Jhum (Shifting cultivation), which is a regional name of the primitive way of cultivation by aboriginals in eastern India and Bangladesh.In earlier period, it was a form of shouting (locally known as Hawka/ Hanka) by working women in the form of short lines describing their emotions in the agriculture field.

  6. Subsistence agriculture - Wikipedia

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    citation needed] While shifting agriculture's slash-and-burn technique may describe the method for opening new land, commonly the farmers in question have in existence at the same time smaller fields, sometimes merely gardens, near the homestead there they practice intensive "non-shifting" techniques.

  7. How a U.S. Army veteran went from battlefields to mushroom ...

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    Population models show women, Hispanics, Blacks and adults under 50 will make up a large proportion of the veteran population by 2048, according to a 2023 study from Pew Research Center, shifting ...

  8. Podu (agriculture) - Wikipedia

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    Podu is a traditional system of cultivation used by tribes in India, whereby different areas of jungle forest are cleared by burning each year to provide land for crops. [1] The word comes from the Telugu language. [2] Podu is a form of shifting agriculture using slash-and-burn methods.

  9. Mental health stigma is shifting. So why are adults ... - AOL

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    Men are less likely to seek help. Gender can also be a predictor of whether patients choose to seek help. In 2022, 2.3 million male patients received mental health treatment versus 2.8 million women.