Slash and Burn is often regarded as the most prmitive,most extensively used and most barbarous way of farm production,It is said that it damages forests and environment,But the destruction is perhaps not the whole sto...Slash and Burn is often regarded as the most prmitive,most extensively used and most barbarous way of farm production,It is said that it damages forests and environment,But the destruction is perhaps not the whole story,Anthropologists have found that not all places where people engage in slash and burn farming are barren wasteland,On the contrary,they are covered with green.Slash and burn does the lest harm to the surface soil while plows and hoes can cause more soil erosion on slopes due do rainfalls,It is likely to be a model that does not have other alternatives that so nearly brings man and nature into harmony.In reality,slash and burn is an cyclic approach to farming developed by people as dictated by local cicumstances;it is a mode of production with considerable rationality.展开更多
文摘Slash and Burn is often regarded as the most prmitive,most extensively used and most barbarous way of farm production,It is said that it damages forests and environment,But the destruction is perhaps not the whole story,Anthropologists have found that not all places where people engage in slash and burn farming are barren wasteland,On the contrary,they are covered with green.Slash and burn does the lest harm to the surface soil while plows and hoes can cause more soil erosion on slopes due do rainfalls,It is likely to be a model that does not have other alternatives that so nearly brings man and nature into harmony.In reality,slash and burn is an cyclic approach to farming developed by people as dictated by local cicumstances;it is a mode of production with considerable rationality.
