In agriculture, polyculture is the practice of growing more than one crop species together in the same place at the same time, in contrast to monoculture...
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Rice polyculture is the cultivation of rice and another crop simultaneously on the same land. The practice exploits the mutual benefit between rice and...
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both in time, as with a crop rotation or sequence, or in space, with a polyculture or intercropping (see table below). Continuous monoculture, or monocropping...
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Crop rotation (section Polyculture)
time in a field. A monoculture is a crop grown by itself in a field. A polyculture involves two or more crops growing in the same place at the same time...
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or in space, with a polyculture or intercropping (see table below). Note that the distinction between monoculture and polyculture is not the same as between...
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to varying local environments. The individual crops and their use in polyculture originated in Mesoamerica, where squash was domesticated first, followed...
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Rice-fish system (category Polyculture)
A rice-fish system is a polyculture practice that integrates rice agriculture with aquaculture, most commonly with freshwater fish. It is based on a mutually...
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cultivation of two or more crops simultaneously on the same field, a form of polyculture. The most common goal of intercropping is to produce a greater yield...
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In many traditional and organic farming practices, crop rotation or polyculture involving legumes is common. By alternating between legumes and non-legumes...
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important aquacultured freshwater species in South Asia. It is grown in polyculture ponds with other carp-like fish, particularly with the roho labeo (Labeo...
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