How Did Southeast Asia's Hill People Practice Swidden Agriculture?

Southeast Asia’s hill people practice swidden agriculture. Swidden Agriculture is also known as slash and burn. When Southeast Asia’s hill people move to new fields every few years, they burned the cleared materials. This is partial to fertilizing the soil. When they move to new fields, they regenerate the old field and this is to avoid the overwhelming nutrient-poor highlands when they move to a new field. For a long period of time people thought that this practice was a ecologically fitting new adaption, however recently they have been criticized because the area has been overpopulated and no longer are there new fields to move to (Neher 9).
Many immigrants moved from China to these Mainlands. The mainlands of Southeast Asia include Burma,