Taungya definition
Taungya means growing food crops in between rows of newly planted or young trees.
Taungya means ‘upland cultivation’ but is often translated into English as ‘shifting cultivation’. The Myanmar government also uses the term ‘permanent taungya’.
Taungya means the practice of growing crops between trees in plantations;
Examples of Taungya in a sentence
This will be discussed and schedules recommended in the training workshops The breakdown of the women and men that will be contracted in the Taungya system is an estimated and it is assumed that this will be the ratio.
However this will need to be verified as the communities are contracted to participate in the Taungya System.