If a particular disease or insect attacks your crop, your entire harvest could be at risk. If you engage in polyculture, and blossom end rot strikes your tomatoes, it will not affect your corn.
Monoculture
Monoculture.
Potato crop in Ireland
A monoculture farm is a farming system where only one type of crop is grown across a large area. This type of farming can lead to problems such as soil depletion, increased susceptibility to pests and diseases, and negative impacts on biodiversity.
Crop monoculture is the name of the agricultural practice in which large fields are planted with a single crop year after year. Although this has its advantages, it also has disadvantages like the eventual diminishing of nutrients in the soil.
Yes, cotton is a cash crop plant that is planted in monoculture for harvest and sale.
Since most modern agricultural techniques require a monoculture, anything that is not the crop is called a weed. Biodiverse is the opposite of a monoculture.
Monoculture means growing only one type of crop, such as, for example, planting only corn and nothing else.
Monoculture farms.
Monoculture.
That is true. Most farmers specialice in a single crop.
Monoculture involves the practice of cultivating a single crop species in a large area. This can lead to a lack of biodiversity, increased susceptibility to pests and diseases, and soil depletion due to the continuous extraction of specific nutrients by the same crop.