multicropping
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multicropping (usually uncountable, plural multicroppings)
- The practice of growing two or more crops on the same piece of land during a single growing season.
- 1978 December, Samuel G. Unger, George W. Bailey, Environmental Implications of Trends in Agriculture and Silviculture, Volume 2: Environmental Effects of Trends, US Environmental Protection Agency, page 28,
- Multicropping practices will increase in some areas; however, it is doubtful if year-round cropping will occur throughout most of the U.S.
- 1998, Brien A. Meilleur, Clones within Clones: Cosmology and Esthetics and Polynesian Crop Selection: Anthropologica, volume XL, number 1, page 76:
- Other researchers have shown interest in multiple cultivar phenomena among indigenous and peasant peoples by studying the distribution and merits of polyculture and multicropping in the tropics.
- 2000, B. A. M. Bouman, R. Roetter, R. A. Schipper, A. G. Laborte, “Regional land-use analysis to support agricultural and environmental policy formulation”, in T. P. Tuong, editor, Characterizing and Understanding Rainfed Environments, page 463:
- Farms with relatively abundant labor compared with their farm size are less likely to engage in multicropping.
- 1978 December, Samuel G. Unger, George W. Bailey, Environmental Implications of Trends in Agriculture and Silviculture, Volume 2: Environmental Effects of Trends, US Environmental Protection Agency, page 28,
Synonyms
- (practice of planting more than one crop in the same place): multiple cropping, polyculture