Main definition. kaingin making. A farming system based on shifting, or slash and burn clearing of forest for the planting of agricultural and agro-forestry crops.

What is kaingin system in the Philippines?

In the Philippines, shifting cultivation, locally known as kaingin, is a major land-use in upland areas. We measured the distribution and recovery of aboveground biomass carbon along a fallow gradient in post-kaingin secondary forests in an upland area in the Philippines.

Is kaingin system good?

Researchers from Melbourne and Copenhagen believe that swidden agriculture also known as “kaingin” in the Philippines is not actually a destructive farming system that many experts had condemned for the last 60 or so years.