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  slash and burn technique

 

Myanmar

After the rice harvest, often slash and burn techniques are used to clear the fields from the remaining stalks by setting them on fire. The process is easy and frees the farmers of doing the labourious task of clearing the field themselves, while the ashes provide free fertilizer.