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List of Cropping and Farming Systems | Agriculture

Here is a list of few important cropping and farming systems widely used in agriculture. 1. Shifting Cultivation/Land Rotation/Jhumming: i. Forest land is cleared and cultivated. Due to cultivation of the same crop generally rice on the same cleared forest land year after year; soil productivity is lost. And the crop is shifted to other slashed and burnt land. ii. [...]

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Annidation and Allelopathy | Agriculture

In this article we will discuss about annidation and allelopathy. Annidation: The complimentary interaction between intercrops in the intercrop­ping system is known as Annidation. When plants are grown as compo­nents of intercropping system, interactions between the components spe­cies occur. Such interactions are essentially the response of one crop spe­cies to the environment as modified by the presence of another species. [...]

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