Question
Download Solution PDFDifferent crops grown in alternate rows is an example of:
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Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Intercropping.
Key Points
- Intercropping involves growing two or more crops simultaneously on the same field but they are not mixed with each other.
- They have grown in inset patterns.
- This pattern prevents pests and diseases to spread in all the plants of one crop and following in a given area.
- Various types of intercropping were known and presumably employed in ancient Greece about 300 B.C
Additional Information
- Three types of cropping patterns.
- Cropping Patterns-Mixed Cropping, Intercropping, Crop Rotation
- mix cropping-Mixed cropping, including intercropping, is the oldest form of systemized agricultural production and involves the growing of two or more species or cultivars of the same species simultaneously in the same field
- Crop rotation is defined as a “system of growing different kinds of crops in recurrent succession on the same land”
Important Points
- Three main types of crops.
- Kharif crops- Grown in June- July, e.g., rice, cotton
- Rabi crops- Grown in October-November, e.g., wheat, potato
- Zaid crops- Grown between March- June, e.g., cucumber, pumpkin
- image of intercropping
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