Question

What are the different ways of growing crops to get maximum benefit?

Answer 1

There are models of raising crops which help in obtaining maximum benefit from the same piece of land, reduce risk of crop failure, disease and infestation. Three common types of cropping patterns are mixed cropping, intercropping and crop rotation.

MIXED CROPPING
Mixed cropping is the technique of growing two or more different crops together in the same field.
The technique is an insurance against crop failure due to adverse weather and attack of pathogens and pests.The different crops to be grown together are so chosen that they do not have common pests and pathogens or similar requirements of water and minerals. Rather the products and waste materials from one crop stimulate the growth of the other crop.Eg. _ Groundnut and sunflower/gram, ragi and gram, wheat and gram/mustard.

INTER-CROPPING
Intercropping is growing two or more crops simultaneously in different strips or rows in a same field in definite row pattern. Row patterns like 1 : 1, 1 : 2 or 1 : 3 can be followed. The crops selected for Intercropping have different nutrient requirements, different sowing and harvesting dates.
e.g., Soyabean Maize, Finger Millet (bajra) Cow Pea (lobia).

CROP ROTATION
Growing different crops on the same piece of land in a pre-planned succession is called crop rotation. Generally a leguminous crop is rotated with non-leguminous crop.
In this way, rotating different crops (e.g., leguminous and non-leguminous crops) in the same field replenishes the soil naturally and leads to increase in the crop production.

Answer 2

hi,

In order to get maximum benefits from the piece of land, different pattern of growing crops are followed. These are:

Mixed cropping

Intercropping

Crop rotation

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