Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area across a sequence of growing seasons. This practice reduces...

practices Cover crop Crop destruction Crop residue Crop rotation Crop weed Kharif crops (crops specific to South Asia) Nurse crop Rabi crops (crops specific...

The three-field system is a regime of crop rotation in which a field is planted with one set of crops one year, a different set in the second year, and...

of the fixed nitrogen becomes available to later crops, so legumes play a key role in crop rotation. The term pulse, as used by the United Nations' Food...

cultivation of the soil before sowing mitigate the pest burden, and crop rotation helps to reduce the build-up of a certain pest species. Concern about...

and diseases in a susceptible crop. The term "oligoculture" has been used to describe a crop rotation of just a few crops, as practiced in several regions...

can be cultivated separately and thus can be used in a crop rotation sequence. Crop rotation has been employed for thousands of years and has been widely...

environmental damage. Rotation of two crops within a year i.e.: Year 1: Wheat Year 2: Barley Year 3: Wheat again Three crop rotation i.e.: Year 1: Wheat...

green manure, compost and minerals. Crop nutrient use may also be managed using cultural techniques such as crop rotation or a fallow period. Manure is used...

Safflower is frequently grown in crop rotation with small grains, fallow and annual legumes. Close rotation with crops susceptible to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum...

practices include corn variety selection, early planting, insecticides, crop rotation and transgenic corn varieties.[citation needed] No commercial, non-transgenic...

Norfolk four-course rotation, which greatly increased crop and livestock yields by improving soil fertility and reducing fallow. Crop rotation is the practice...

Industrial Revolution. Historians cited enclosure, mechanization, four-field crop rotation, and selective breeding as the most important innovations. Industrial...

`fodder-crop revolution' had earlier been central to the 18th-century agricultural revolution in Western Europe. By 1924 multi-crop rotations covered...

farm profitability. Diversity can be added both in time, as with a crop rotation or sequence, or in space, with a polyculture or intercropping (see table...

Norfolk four-course system is a method of agriculture that involves crop rotation. Unlike earlier methods such as the three-field system, the Norfolk...

land. The rotation of crops grown in red soil can significantly help to limit some of the compositional issues mentioned previously. Crop rotation helps to...

organic agriculture.'" The paper described agricultural practices, like crop rotation, compost application, and reduced tillage, that are similar to organic...

including horses, cattle, sheep, and goats to the Americas. Irrigation, crop rotation, and fertilizers were introduced soon after the Neolithic Revolution...

worked (ploughed or tilled) regularly, generally under a system of crop rotation". In Britain, arable land has traditionally been contrasted with pasturable...

other crops, can be a very effective method of weed control. It is a way to avoid the use of herbicides, and to gain the benefits of crop rotation. A biological...

better in low-temperature areas. Sunflower cultivation typically uses crop rotation, often with cereals, soybean, or rapeseed. This reduces idle periods...

desertification. Techniques for improved soil conservation include crop rotation, cover crops, conservation tillage and planted windbreaks, affect both erosion...

Strip cropping is a method of farming which involves cultivating a field partitioned into long, narrow strips which are alternated in a crop rotation system...

meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation, companion planting, and mixed cropping. Biological pest control methods such as the fostering...

field at a time. Both polycultures and monocultures may be subject to crop rotations or other changes with time (table). A well-known traditional example...

Look up rotation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rotation is a circular motion of a body about a center. Rotation may also refer to: Rotation (anatomy)...

pesticides. Crop rotations often are the only economically feasible method for reducing insect and disease damage. Crop rotation replaces a crop that is susceptible...

fallow period must be included in the crop rotation means that fields cannot always be protected by a cover crop, which might otherwise offer protection...

include permaculture, agroforestry, mixed farming, multiple cropping, and crop rotation. Developing sustainable food systems contributes to the sustainability...