Shifting Cultivation

This is a farming system whereby the farmer cultivates a piece of land for sometime and then moves his / her family and settlement away from the land when the soil loses its fertility. The land is allowed to fallow(left free to regain fertility)

Advantages

• It helps check the outbreak of pests and diseases.

• The land regains fertile again during the fallow period.

• Simple farm tools such as hoes, cutlasses and among others are used in this farming system.

Disadvantages

• Virgin forest is destroyed.

• It does not encourage large scale farming.

• It can not be practised at areas where demands on land is high.

• This farming system needs a lot of time and work.