JAMB - Agricultural Science (2021 - No. 39)

The system in which a farmer uses a piece of land for a period and abandons it for another land is called
crop rotation
mix cropping
shifting cultivation
leg farming

Explanation

Shifting agriculture is a system of cultivation in which a plot of land is cleared and cultivated for a short period of time, then abandoned and allowed to revert to producing its normal vegetation while the cultivator moves on to another plot.

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