Question

difference between multiple cropping and modern farming

Answer 1

Multiple cropping corresponds to produce more than 1 crop on a piece of land during 1 year.( a common method used by the farmers). But in the modern farming method, HYV ( high yielding variety) seeds are used for farming with lot of irrigation and chemical fertilizers and pesticides which inturn resulted into high yielding of crops. Approximately more than double of production with traditional seeds. The modern farming method was proposed to farmers during green revolution in late 1960s.