Group 1 science project
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Kaingin system refers to slash and burn agriculture where trees are burned in forests to clear land for cultivation. Farmers will cultivate the land until the soil is no longer productive, then move to another forest area and burn it again. Over time, as the land becomes more permanently settled and intensive farming techniques make burning unnecessary, the system evolves from kaingin to other terms like darohan in some local languages.
Group 1 science project
- 2. KainginSystem refers to the burning of trees for cultivation porpuses. Kaingeros cultivate the area until such time that the soil is no longer good for planting.then, they transfer to another area and burn forest again.
- 4. Kaingin system are illegal things that are used in forests..... with this system our forests will be destroyed.... The Tagalog term Kaingin is used to describe the upland farming systems in several Filipino languages. Olofson (1980) notes ‘there is utter confusion in the use of the term’, which is also used to refer to permanent hillside farming. This study explores farmers’ own interpretations of Kaingin and words from their own language, Cebuano, as the key to understanding their farming systems. Kaingin System is a system wherein you burn trees in a forest for farming.
- 5. In Trinidad farmers no longer practise kaingin, which they say has evolved into more permanent farming methods. According to them, their grandparents converted the forest by kaingin, which means they cleared the big trees and planted maize, then cassava, then banana and coconut. They could cultivate maize for a maximum of three years before it was shaded out by the coconuts, or Imperata cylindrica would invade. ‘Kaingin involves cutting trees and manual cultivation because there are lots of stones and roots
- 7. It is only found in the forest. We call the farming system now darohan. With darohan you can use buffalo because there are no stumps. If you have many parcels, you can fallow the land for one year, but if you have only a little land you have to concentrate on cropping on that land.’ In southern Leyte, and Bohol, farmers use the cebuano term ba-ol to refer to kaingin or forest shifting cultivation. However it is not shifting cultivation in any cyclical sense; the end product is either perennial plantations or Imperata wastelands which may be managed under darohan, shifting only in the sense of crop rotations and short-term fallow.
- 9. In Matalom, farmers said that kaingin means ‘slash and burn’. On their hillside plots, they grow maize and sweet potato followed by one year of fallow, often cleared by burning. In recent years many people have stopped burning the fallow (to conserve more organic matter) and consider that without burning, the system is no longer kaingin. Like the farmers in Trinidad, they call these intensified systems darohan.
- 10. Submittedby: Rafael Jules V. Codera. Chloe Ann Valdeavilla. Ralph Danielle Gallegos Alayssa Uson Mitzi Recto