Farmers often use fire to return nutrients to the soil and to clear the ground of unwanted plants and have been using this method of clearing the land called “slash and burn” for thousands of ...

IBIDAN, Nigeria, April 7 (UPI) -- Farming of crops like cocoa, cassava and oil palm has resulted in widespread deforestation and degradation of West ... like slash-and-burn and land clearing ...

Indigenous tribes who have relied on slash-and ... allowed to keep burning, and that they may face a food crisis if they cannot. See All Key Ideas Come August in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan ...

The slash-and-burn method is part of a Dayak traditional ritual called gawai, carried out by people of Iban communities spread across West Kalimantan and some parts of Sarawak in Malaysia to mark ...

Farmers often use fire to return nutrients to the soil and to clear the ground of unwanted plants and have been using this method of clearing the land called 'slash and burn' for thousands of years.