What Is the Problem with Shifting Cultivation

question 20

Multiple Choice

What is the problem with shifting cultivation?

• A) It does not make enough food to feed the cultivators.
• B) It gluts the market with too much food.
• C) It can be done only at high elevations.
• D) If the plots are reused before regrowth is complete, yields decrease drastically.

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