Differentiate between crop rotation and inter cropping
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Intercropping and crop rotation are alternative strategies applied in multiple cropping, the growing of two or more crops in the same piece of land. Both cropping systems have resulted to increased farm production and profitability per unit land area in selected crops.
Intercropping is the growing of two or more crops together in proximity on the same land. As a result, two or more crops are managed at the same time. It differs from crop rotation in which two or more crops are grown one after the other. There are at least four types of intercropping according to spatial arrangement (Sullivan, 2003).
Intercropping is growing two or more crop simultaniously on the same field in a definite pattern simply it is improved version of mixed cropping. Crop rotation : It can be defined as the practice of growing of different crops on a piece of land in a pre planned succession.
crop production = the production of growing of different crops in a preplant succession is called crop rotation.
intercropping= the practice of growing two or more crops simultaneously in a same field in definite row pattern is called intercropping.