Question

What is crop rotation ? Tabulaye two difference between inter cropping and mixed cropping

Answer 1

Mixed cropping is the diversity of crop types eg cereals like Wheat, Oats, Barley, and legumes like Lupins, beans, peas then there is Canola. Crop rotation is changing the field you plant the seeds in. Legumes produce Nitrogen so after a legume crop you would plant a cereal crop to utilize the Nitrogen from the legume crop

Answer 2

In agriculture, mixed cropping is the practice of growing two or more crops in the same piece of land in same growing seasons. It is a form of polyculture. It can take the form of double-cropping, in which a second crop is planted after the first has been harvested, or relay cropping, in which the second crop is started amidst the first crop before it has been harvested. A related practice, companion planting, is sometimes used in gardening and intensive cultivation of vegetables and fruits. One example of multi-cropping is tomatoes + onions + marigold; the marigolds repel some tomato pests. Mixed cropping is found in many agricultural traditions. In the Garhwal Himalaya of India, a practice called baranaja involves sowing 12 or more crops on the same plot, including various types of beans, grains, and millets, and harvesting them at different times.