The shifting cultivation in Nagaland state is described as an agricultural system where a farming community slashes secondary forests on a predetermined location, burns the slash and cultivates the land for a limited number of years. The land is then left fallow and the farming community moves to the next location to repeat the process till they return back to the starting point. This paper documents and analyses the shifting cultivation practices of the people of Konyak tribe through a case study of Ngangching village of Mon district of Nagaland with an objective of drawing lessons, and exploring possible use of this indigenous knowledge for developmental planning concerning natural resource management and land use in the region.