Taungya system
The Taungya system was introduced in Burma by the German botanist Dietrich Brandis from 1855 . Taungya is originally the name of Karen for shifting cultivation . Slash and burn farmers were encouraged to sow teak between their usual mountain rice and cotton crops. After the fields were given up, the young teak stock was to be transferred to the British colonial forest service. Brandis has thus created a first system of combined agricultural and forestry cultivation. The Taungya system was only able to establish itself when, from 1868 onwards, the slash-and-burn farmers were paid premiums for successful teak crops. Taungya quickly spread throughout British India , but above all in the Dutch colony of Indonesia . It has also been used in Africa since the beginning of the 20th century, but rarely in tropical America.
features
- Felling and burning of the original vegetation in the slash and burn process
- short-term combined agricultural and forestry cultivation, u. U. with a purely agricultural lead of one to several years
- End of agricultural use and takeover of forest cultures by the forest administration
Other names for the Taungya system :
- chena ( Sri Lanka ),
- kaingin ( Philippines ),
- kumri ( India ),
- ladang ( Malaysia ),
- parcelero ( Puerto Rico ),
- shamba ( Kenya )
- taungya ( Myanmar )