The extensive form of horticulture in which the natural vegetation is cut, the slash is subsequently burned, and crops then planted among the ashes is known as slash-and-burn cultivation. It is also called:
a. intensive agriculture.
b. complex farming.
c. simple agronomy.
d. swidden farming.
e. extensive cultivation.
ANSWER: d
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