Question

what is mixed cropping
how does it help farmer

Answer 1

growing more than 1 crop on the same piece of land at the same time

Answer 2

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♣ Mixed Cropping

✍️ Mixed cropping is the practice of growing two or more crops together on the same piece of land in one cropseason.

✍️ For example, wheat, gram and mustard are grown as mixed rabi crops in dry regions of Northern India.

✍️ It is a system of sowing two or three crops together on the same land, one being the main crop and the others the subsidiaries.

✍️ It is also known as polyculture, inter-cropping, or co-cultivation, is a type of agriculture that involves planting two or more plants simultaneously in the same field, interdigitating the crops so that they grow together.

♣ ADVANTAGES

✍️ It provides a rich biodiverse environment, fostering habitat and species richness for animals and insects such as butterflies and bees.

✍️ Some evidence suggests that polycultural fields do produce high yields compared to monocultural fields in certain situations, and almost always increase biomass richness over time.

✍️ Polyculture in forests, heathlands, grasslands, and marshes has been particularly important for the regrowth of biodiversity in Europe.