India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia
Published on India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia (http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in)

Home > Featured Articles > A case study on shifting cultivation practices in Mon district of Nagaland > A case study on shifting cultivation practices in Mon district of Nagaland

A case study on shifting cultivation practices in Mon district of Nagaland [1]

The shifting cultivation in Nagaland state is described as an agricultural system where a farming community slashes secondary forests on a predetermined location, burns the slash and cultivates the land for a limited number of years. The land is then left fallow and the farming community moves to the next location to repeat the process till they return back to the starting point.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2009
Suraj Bhan [2]
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation [3]
8
2
8
Tags:
Land Use [4], Agriculture [5], Shifting Cultivation [6], Trees [7], Tribals [8], Konyak [9], Traditional Knowledge [10], Nagaland [11]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

Technology Partners: MimirTech


India Environment Portal by Centre for Science and Environment is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India License.


Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/case-study-shifting-cultivation-practices-mon-district-nagaland

Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/case-study-shifting-cultivation-practices-mon-district-nagaland
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/suraj-bhan
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/journal-soil-and-water-conservation
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-use
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/shifting-cultivation
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/trees
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tribals
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/konyak
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/traditional-knowledge
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nagaland