Kadenmin

Japanese: 火田民 - かでんみん

Farmers who practice slash-and-burn agriculture in the mountainous region of northern Korea. They cultivate self-sufficient crops (foxtail millet, potatoes, soybeans, buckwheat, corn, etc.), and when the soil loses fertility after 3 to 5 years, they wander in search of suitable land. Since ancient times, there have been many bans on slash-and-burn agriculture because it has led to forest destruction, fires, and floods, but during the period of Japanese rule in Korea, farmers who lost their land became slash-and-burn people in northern Korea, and their numbers increased rapidly. After the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, state-run livestock farming was introduced in the region in an effort to eliminate the slash-and-burn people, and they disappeared in the late 1970s.
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Japanese:

朝鮮北部山岳地帯で焼畑耕作を営む農民。自給作物（アワ，ジャガイモ，ダイズ，ソバ，トウモロコシ等）を栽培し，３〜５年で地力が衰えると適地を求めて流浪する。山林の荒廃，火災，水害を招くため古来幾度も禁令が出たが，日本の朝鮮支配期には土地を失った農民が北部朝鮮では火田民となり逆に急増した。朝鮮民主主義人民共和国成立後，同地域に国営牧畜業を導入して火田民の解消を図り，1970年代末に消滅した。
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