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mayans also grew beans, squash, avocados, pears, sweet potato's, guava, chili peppers, papayas and tomatoes. Mayans used a farming technique called milpa,also known as the slash and burn technique.the Mayans would burn down the land that was covered and the cut down the remaining foliage. This technique posed a problem because the land wouldn't last very long. The Mayans cycled through different areas to keep a stable farming.
Aztec farming has become most famous because of the brilliant chinampas system that Aztec farmers used. Certainly there were a number of techniques used in the Aztec empire.But with the great city of Tenochtitlan built on swampy but rich ground, the chinampas became key to the food production of the people.hinampas and other forms of Aztec agriculture actually come from the days before the Aztec empire. Chinampas farming was begun in Xochimilco and Chalco, and was probably quickly adapted by the Aztecs as these people became part of the empire.