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Which of the following characterizes slash-and-burn agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Farmers generally produce enough to feed their families and sell any surplus at the local market.
In slash-and-burn agriculture, the cleared land is used exclusively to raise livestock.
Slash-and-burn agriculture only recently has been introduced to the region.
Slash-and-burn agriculture utilizes machinery such as tractors, combines and center-pivot irrigation.
Slash-and-burn agriculture is the most productive of all forms of agriculture.

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Answer:farmers generally produce enough to feed there families and sell any surplus at the local market

Explanation: this is a type of shifting cultivation where a farmer clears an area of a forest and then burn it before planting only to move to another part when that area looses it's fertility or the fertility is been reduced.

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