Milpa
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milpa-173-15598581
title:
Milpa
text:
In agriculture, a milpa is a field for growing food crops and a crop-growing system used throughout Mesoamerica, especially in the Yucatán Peninsula, in Mexico. The word milpa derives from the Nahuatl words milli and pan. Based on the agronomy of the Maya and of other Mesoamerican peoples, the milpa system is used to produce crops of maize, beans, and squash without employing artificial pesticides and artificial fertilizers. The land-conservation cycle of the milpa is two years of cultivation an
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Mesoamerican crop growing system
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milpa
date created:
2003-03-02T23:56:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T12:43:20Z
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13
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