What are the advantages of using crop rotation ?
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it'll increase crop production and also will maintain soil fertility. since in this method, types of crops are sown according to the season.
What are the advantages of crop rotation?
Originally Answered: What is the importance of crop rotation?
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Crop rotation is one of the oldest and most effective cultural control strategies. It means the planned order of specific crops planted on the same field. It also means that the succeeding crop belongs to a different family than the previous one. The planned rotation may vary from 2 or 3 year or longer period.
Some insect pests and disease-causing organisms are hosts' specific. For example, rice stem borer feeds mostly on rice. If you don't rotate rice with other crops belonging to a different family, the problem continues as food is always available to the pest. However, if you plant legume as the next crop, then corn, then beans, then bulbs, the insect pest will likely die due to absence of food.
Advantages of crop rotation
Prevents soil depletion
Maintains soil fertility
Reduces soil erosion
Controls insect/mite pests. Crop rotation as a means to control to insect pests is most effective when the pests are present before the crop is planted have no wide range of host crops; attack only annual/biennial crops; and do not have the ability to fly from one field to another.
Reduces reliance on synthetic chemicals
Reduces the pests' build-up
Prevents diseases
Helps control weeds
Useful tips in planning crop rotation
Know the family where your crops belong to make sure that you plant on the next cropping a crop that belongs to a different family than the previous one.
Make a list of the crops you want to grow by also taken into consideration the market's demand of your produce. For example, plant leafy vegetable on the first cropping season, next fruit vegetables, then root crops, then legumes, then small grains.
Grow legumes before grains or cereals.
Practice
Always keep farm records.
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Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area in sequential season.
1.Crop rotation is helpful in enhancing the nutritional status of soil, for example after growing rice in the field we can take pulse crop that will enhance the nitrogen content in soil by fixing atmospheric nitrogen.
2. Crop rotation also prevent the plants from disease pathogen, this can be achieved by growing non host plants.
3. It also prevent the crops from insects.
4. It is also helpful in reducing weeds present in the field.
5. It also increase soil nutrient cycle and physical properties of soil.