SLASHANDBURN

Slash-and-burn

Slash-and-burn is an agricultural technique that involves cutting and burning of trees and plants in forests or woodlands to create fields. It is subsistence agriculture that typically uses little technology or other tools. It is typically part of shifting cultivation agriculture, and of transhumance livestock herding.

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slash and burn

Noun

  1. A technique in agriculture where plant matter is roughly cut down and then burned over to prepare fields for the next crop.

Verb

  1. To apply the slash and burn technique.
    We'll slash and burn this week and plant next.

Adjective

  1. Rough, coarse and lacking finesse, performed with little skill.
    His slash and burn approach to management resulted in few friends and many enemies.


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