31. Shifting cultivation has degraded this forest.32. Later restrictions by the Forest Department on dalhi or shifting cultivation undermined the forest-based livelihoods of the Katkari. 33. Echoing a similar sentiment, Chiew Chiu Sing ( DAP-Bintulu ) said natives in Sarawak also practised shifting cultivation . 34. In the regions of shifting cultivation where polygyny is most frequently recorded, labor is often starkly divided between genders. 35. Law said traditional agricultural practices including shifting cultivation would be exempted because they were carried out by small-scale farmers. 36. Primarily, the majority of the liangmai men and women are agriculturalists, the mostly practised is jhum or shifting cultivation . 37. These cultures performed shifting cultivation called " jhum ", which is still practiced by some communities in the region. 38. At first sight, the greatest stimulus to the intensification of a shifting cultivation system is a growth in population. 39. This raises the question : if shifting cultivation did not lead to the disappearance of European forests, what did? 40. Shifting cultivation is a farming system which sometimes incorporates the slash and burn method in some regions of the world.
