Slash and burn agriculture, field preparation to plant maize, Usambara Mountains, Tanzania
Farmers slash and burn the vegetation tp prepare the fields to plant maize. This is a common agricultural practice in the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania. Slash and burn consists of cutting and burning of forests or woodlands to create fields for agriculture. It is sometimes part of shifting cultivation agriculture, and of transhumance livestock herding. Historically, the practice of slash and burn has been widely practised throughout most of the world, in grasslands as well as woodlands, and known by many names.
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