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Bangladesh: Jhum Cultivation In The Hill Tracts

Posted 13 February 2010 2:54 GMT 1 · Written by Rezwan

Categories: South Asia, Bangladesh, Environment, Indigenous

Expat blogger Bernie Allen writes about ^[1] an ingenious style of farming in Bangladesh: “Jhum cultivation is practiced by the Indigenous people on the hills and slopes of the Chittagong Hill Tracts because of the lack of flat land for cultivation.”