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Would growing two different crops in alternate rows reduce the farmers need to add chemicals to a field?
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∙ 13y ago
That's one way organic farmers use to avoid using chemicals. The planting of complementary crops and interplantings can help prevent the intrusion of a multitude of pests. It doesn't work for existing industrial (commercial) agriculture because all the equipment and production methods are dependent on the system being a monoculture in order to gain economy of scale.
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