Question

short note on cropping pattern

Answer 1

CROPPING PATTERN AND CROPPING SYSTEM
Traditionally, increased food production has come from putting more land under cultivation. However, in large areas of the world, especially in Asia, all the land that can be economically cultivated is already in use. In future, most of the extra food needs must come from higher production from land already being farmed. A major share of this increase is likely to come from increasing the number of crops produced per year on a given land using improved crop cultivars. Such multiple cropping offers potential not only to increase food production but also decrease land degradation.

A system is defined as a set of components that are interrelated and interact among themselves. A cropping system refers to a set of crop systems, making up the cropping activities of a farm system.

The cropping system comprises all components required for the production of a particular crop and the interrelationships between them and an environment