Question

What is mixed cropping and inter -cropping?

Answer 1

Crop refers to a plant of a particular kind, grown on a large scale in a proportion of area, for commercial purposes. For growing crops, a particular pattern or system is followed. Cropping system implies a sequence and management, practised in a piece of land for cultivating crops, over time. The two most commonly contrasted cropping systems are mixed cropping and intercropping. Mixed cropping implies a cropping technique in which different types of crops are cultivated together.

On the contrary, when two or more crops are cultivated simultaneously on the same piece of land, in a definite pattern, it is called as intercropping.

Answer 2

mixed cropping is growing more than one crop on the same field during a season.... whereas inter cropping is growing one crop at a time and then interchanging it on the same field another season so that it gains the nutrients left by previous crop from the soil .... hope that helps you!!