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Shifting cultivation and Soil fertility

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Difference between Shifting cultivation and Soil fertility

Shifting cultivation vs. Soil fertility

Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation while the cultivator moves on to another plot. Soil fertility refers to the ability of a soil to sustain agricultural plant growth, i.e. to provide plant habitat and result in sustained and consistent yields of high quality.

Similarities between Shifting cultivation and Soil fertility

Shifting cultivation and Soil fertility have 6 things in common (in Unionpedia): Agriculture, Slash-and-burn, Soil, Soil conservation, Soil organic matter, Terra preta.

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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Slash-and-burn

Slash-and-burn agriculture, or fire–fallow cultivation, is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden.

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Soil

Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.

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Soil conservation

Soil conservation is the preventing of soil loss from erosion or reduced fertility caused by over usage, acidification, salinization or other chemical soil contamination.

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Soil organic matter

Soil organic matter (SOM) is the organic matter component of soil, consisting of plant and animal residues at various stages of decomposition, cells and tissues of soil organisms, and substances synthesized by soil organisms.

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Terra preta

Terra preta (locally, literally "black soil" in Portuguese) is a type of very dark, fertile artificial (anthropogenic) soil found in the Amazon Basin.

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Shifting cultivation and Soil fertility Comparison

Shifting cultivation has 79 relations, while Soil fertility has 50. As they have in common 6, the Jaccard index is 4.65% = 6 / (79 + 50).

References

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