| Forest or grassland is burned to make swiddens at the end of the dry season in February and March. |
|
| Paddy rice and rice grown in swiddens in hilly areas provides subsistence for the majority of the population. |
|
| He concluded that swiddens generally produced enough food for consumption and future planting, and only occasionally was there a need to resort to semi-domesticate crops. |
|
| The Karen response was the limited expansion of wet-rice terraces and the adoption of careful conservation measures to preserve the productivity of swiddens. |
|
| In this type of subsistence farming rice was the most important crop and several of the 92 recognized rice varieties were planted in new swiddens. |
|
| However, the cultivation of padi and other cultigens such as maize, tubers, vegetables, and fruit trees in swiddens is central to their diet. |
|
| However, this is not always the case in some areas where every household often carries out ceremonies in at least some of its bigger swiddens. |
|
| The initial introduction of outboard motors made access to Belaga Bazaar and distant swiddens much easier. |
|
| The economic activities that provision these societies are generally ignored with only a superficial nod to swiddens or wet rice fields. |
|
| These facts reinforced the view that the Maya drew their basic sustenance from corn, most of it grown on slash-and-burn plots known as swiddens. |
|
| The celebration was connected with the sowing of rice in swiddens. |
|
| The once impenetrable and mysterious Amazon basin is riddled with roads, power plants, gold mines, boom towns, cattle ranches, settlers' swiddens, and coca plantations. |
|
