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Shiiba Village: Slash-and-Burn Agriculture

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Tokyo, Japan

In the village of Shiiba, staple foods include hunted foods, millet, and buckwheat, with the majority of this produced through slash-and-burn agriculture. The land is farmed through the original, primitive slash-and-burn technique, where land is cultivated for 4 years, then left for 20 years to recover.

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