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intercropping

intercropping

4.9
Growing two or more crops together in the same field at the same time
  • noun
  • /ˌɪntərˈkrɒpɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : cultivo intercalado
  • "Besides the use of compost for nutrients and disease suppression, the IPM system includes pest vacuuming, beneficial insect releases, and intercropping with alfalfa and wildflowers.
  • intercropping systems

So that is the third type of, of intercropping.

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Examples

  • An effective method for soil conservation is intercropping, where legumes are planted alongside grains.

  • Through crop diversity, multicropping, and intercropping, gardeners manipulate space and time to reduce risks and maximize yield.

    Academic text (2004)

  • An excellent example of this is an intercropping project in Kenya.

    Academic text (2003)

  • We've had great intercropping those plants and this zone here becomes available.

  • So at the end of the day, that's kind of the final form of intercropping because I like to live life and have and have fun doing it.

  • Second, intercropping was an effective labor-saving device since several crops could be tended simultaneously.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Many cash crops are simultaneously food crops, such as rice in Asia, and many cash export crops, such as cocoa in West Africa, are grown by small farmers in the same fields with food crops in an environmentally friendly system of intercropping.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Introducing legumes with upland rice-based intercropping systems can improve soil physical properties and enhance residual soil N content (Jabbar et al. 2005).

    Academic text (2014)

  • Moreover, Industrial Agriculture 1.0 (the current version) is poor at intercropping, polyculture, building up soil structure and fertility, sequestering carbon, and other management practices that are demonstrably productive and sustainable.

    Blog text (16)

  • The widespread mixing of maize types is ensured by the nearly ubiquitous intercropping of multiple cultivars in fields designated for subsistence (mean = 2.9 cultivars per field; N = 67).

    Academic text (1991)

Synonyms

polyculture
vsintercropping
  • Specialized
1 7.0

A way of growing different kinds of plants and other living things together in the same place

is focused on planting multiple crops together in the same field at once
interplanting
vsintercropping
  • Specialized
5.6

Growing different crops together in the same area to help each other

is about growing multiple crops together at the same time without focusing on benefit

How Mixed

polyculture
  • Specialized
1 7.0
intercropping
  • Specialized
4.9
strip cropping
  • Specialized
5.7
monoculture
  • Specialized
5 7.6

Surface Forms

intercropping singular
intercroppings plural

Morphology

intercropping = intercrop (transparent) = inter + crop + ing

The noun is a regular -ing nominalization of the verb 'intercrop', whose meaning is directly built from 'inter-' plus 'crop'.

Etymology

The word intercropping combines inter- meaning 'between' or 'among' and crop meaning 'plants', so it gives a clear picture of different plants grown 'among' each other. That's why intercropping means growing two or more crops together in the same field to help the soil, cut pest problems, and grow more food.