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Terrace Farming
Also Known As Terracing
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Carving a mountainside into stacked level fields, each held by a wall, so water soaks in instead of tearing the soil downhill. The rice terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, the Andean terraces of the Inca and the hillside vineyards of the Mediterranean are the same engineering answer, arrived at independently, to farming steep land.
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Practice ClassLand shaping and erosion control 1 OriginDeveloped independently in the Andes, Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Mediterranean and highland Africa in antiquity 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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