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• Companion planting — is the planting of different crops in proximity (in gardening and agriculture), on the theory that they assist each other in nutrient uptake, pest control, pollination, and other factors necessary to increasing crop productivity. Companion… …   Wikipedia

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• Intercropping — is the agricultural practice of cultivating two or more crops in the same space at the same time (Andrews Kassam 1976). A practice often associated with sustainable agriculture and organic farming, intercropping is one form of polyculture, using… …   Wikipedia

• Crop rotation — Fallow redirects here. For other uses, see Fallow (disambiguation). Satellite image of circular crop fields in late June 2001. Healthy, growing crops are green. Corn would be growing into leafy stalks by then. Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows …   Wikipedia

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• Polyculture — is agriculture using multiple crops in the same space, in imitation of the diversity of natural ecosystems, and avoiding large stands of single crops, or monoculture. It includes crop rotation, multi cropping, intercropping, companion planting,… …   Wikipedia