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• Multiple cropping — In agriculture, multiple cropping is the practice of growing two or more crops in the same space during a single growing season. [1] It is a form of polyculture. It can take the form of double cropping, in which a second crop is planted after the …   Wikipedia

• continuous cropping — /kəntɪnjuəs ˈkrɒpɪŋ/ (say kuhntinyoohuhs kroping) noun 1. the growing of a single crop species in a field year after year. Compare crop rotation, fallow cropping. 2. the growing of crops each year in succession without a period of fallow to allow …  

• fallow cropping — /ˈfæloʊ krɒpɪŋ/ (say faloh kroping) noun the growing of a crop in that period of the year when the commercial crop will not grow so as to improve the soil from the nitrogen fixing occurring as the non commercial crop grows, and from the nutrients …  

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