Polyculture
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polyculture-181-4823551
title:
Polyculture
text:
In agriculture, polyculture is the practice of growing more than one crop species together in the same place at the same time, in contrast to monoculture, which had become the dominant approach in developed countries by 1950. Traditional examples include the intercropping of the Three Sisters, namely maize, beans, and squashes, by indigenous peoples of Central and North America, the rice-fish systems of Asia, and the complex mixed cropping systems of Nigeria. Polyculture offers multiple advantag
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Growing multiple crops together in agriculture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyculture
date created:
2004-02-09T16:14:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T06:49:29Z
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