shifting cultivation

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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a land-use system, esp in tropical Africa, in which a tract of land is cultivated until its fertility diminishes, when it is abandoned until this is restored naturally

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shifting cultivation n → agricoltura itinerante

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