Rattan: Ecological balance in a Borneo rainforest swidden

Various agricultural startegies have been tried in swidden areas of tropical rainforest. Some have focused on food production, others on cash crops. Certain strategies have disrupted the ecological balance of the rainforest, while others developed with ecological stability in mind, but rarely have food production and cash cropping been coterminous and maintained ecological stability. Rattan in tropical rainforest swidden of southeastern Boreno is an indigenous system of producing both food and a cash crop without ecological disruption.