
Farming without flames: Sustainable farming approach to the …
2023年5月18日 · Agricultural burning, also known as slash-and-burn agriculture or kaingin, is a traditional practice that involves the cutting and burning of vegetation to clear land for farming. It has been a common farming practice in the Philippines for centuries, particularly among indigenous communities.
‘Kaingin’ not a destructive farming method - experts - SEARCA
2015年5月22日 · Researchers from Melbourne and Copenhagen believe that swidden agriculture also known as “kaingin” in the Philippines is not actually a destructive farming system that many experts had condemned for the last 60 or so years.
(PDF) Kaingin farming practices of Hanunuo farmers in Paclolo ...
2023年2月1日 · Employing the descriptive method of research, this study was conducted to determine the “kaingin” farming practices of the Hanunuos in the indigenous communities of Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro....
PhilRice technologies to help farmers shun `kaingin`
2013年11月8日 · The traditional practice of kaingin (slash and burn) can be avoided if certain farm technologies are implemented in upland farming areas, a researcher in a government institute said.
Slash-and-burn farming can be avoided by applying certain farm ...
2013年11月11日 · THE traditional practice of kaingin (slash and burn) farming by upland farmers can be avoided if certain farm technologies are implemented. This was the assessment of Nenita Desamero of the Plant Breeding and Biotechnology Division of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).
The Philippines – Don’t blame indigenous peoples’ farming …
2015年4月15日 · Well-known scholars have argued that traditionally practiced kaingin (or integral kaingin) involves the intermittent clearing of small patches of forest for subsistence food crop production, followed by longer periods of fallow in which forest …
In Trinidad farmers no longer practise kaingin, which they say has evolved into more permanent farming methods. According to them, their grandparents converted the forest by kaingin, which means they cleared the big trees and planted maize, then cassava, then banana and coconut.
(PDF) The occurrence of 'kaingin' within the Cleopatra's Needle ...
Kaingin – the local term for shifting cultivation, is a widespread land-use in forest-agriculture frontiers in upland areas of the country, and regarded as one of the key drivers of ...
Kaingin in the Philippines: is it the end of the forest?
Shifting cultivation in the Philippines is widely referred to as 'kaingin', but as this paper reported, different communities attached different meanings to the term. The most common local definition was slash-and-burn with no return to forest, and farmers in all areas attributed deforestation to kaingin rather than to commercial logging.
Who says kaingin is bad? - Philstar.com
2009年10月11日 · Time was when kaingin (slash-and-burn farming) was outrightly condemned as a destructive upland agriculture practice that has considerably contributed to the denudation of vast tracts of the ...