slash and burn

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English - Turkish
slash ve yanık
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A technique in agriculture where plant matter is roughly cut down and then burned over to prepare fields for the next crop
To apply the slash and burn technique

We'll slash and burn this week and plant next.

Rough, coarse and lacking finesse, performed with little skill

His slash and burn approach to management resulted in few friends and many enemies.

method of land clearing for cultivation in which the forest is first felled and then burned to add nutrients to the soil
(also: slash 'n burn) v To use formers to eliminate every trace of xenofungus from around your bases A quick way to annoy the eighth faction
Slash and burn is a method of farming that involves clearing land by destroying and burning all the trees and plants on it, farming there for a short time, and then moving on to clear a new piece of land. Traditional slash and burn farming methods have exhausted the soil
cultivation with recurrent clearing and burning of vegetation and planting in the burnt fields Fallow periods for each plot last longer than periods of cultivation It is sometimes referred to as swidden (or shifting) cultivation
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Drastic or destructive: “The past few years of painful, slash-and-burn expense cutting have made top brokerage executives reluctant to revert to their former, profligate ways” (David Henry)
Of or being a form of agriculture in which an area of forest is cleared by cutting and burning and is then planted, usually for several seasons, before being left to return to forest
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