| However, the cultivation of padi and other cultigens such as maize, tubers, vegetables, and fruit trees in swiddens is central to their diet. |
| 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. |
| Forest or grassland is burned to make swiddens at the end of the dry season in February and March. |
| The Karen response was the limited expansion of wet-rice terraces and the adoption of careful conservation measures to preserve the productivity of swiddens. |
| 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. |
| Paddy rice and rice grown in swiddens in hilly areas provides subsistence for the majority of the population. |
