Establishment of Society

Establishment of society

Shifting cultivators/cultivation.

This is the system wherein which most of the inhabitants are wanderers. The primary reason for establishing such agriculture is to have a source of food for a particular time being. Most often than not, shifting cultivators tend to leave the land after planting and having enough source of food. Thus, they are leaving behind the land on an indefinite status. When [we] say indefinite status, that means that the area was just been used and after sometime, is not yet capable of another plantation. It will take years for it to become arable again, now what we call natural vegetation. Natural vegetation is the natural process of restoring the lost nutrients of the land that was used.

People during that time used shifting cultivation to avoid competitors in using the land they used. For that, [we] may take into consideration the fact that this agricultural system is best evident on an individualistic and family level and rare are the cases of village level. More so, shifting cultivation is the micro-agricultural process of how people use a land or area.

Some researchers disclosed that this method of agricultural consumption is a wasteful mean and a destructive account for it commences some environmental conflicts. These conflicts are mainly due to the means of doing shifting cultivation, which [we] include the infamous “swidden” or slash and burn. This process initiates the stoppage of growing crops by slashing them out then/or burning the land.

Also, researchers said that this method cannot be of help in the modern setting, especially to those countries who are very rich in agriculture. Though in the case of our country, one prominent example of shifting cultivation is the “Kaingin” system. In this system, nothing is done as a medium of replacement to what the [people] extracted from the nature. No wonder, why the tropics and the rich agriculture of the Philippines are merely just turning into legends and stories.

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