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CROPPING SYSTEMS
Kharif crop : July to Oct
Rabi crop : Oct to March
Zaid crop : March to June
Cropping pattern : Yearly sequence and spatial arrangement of crops and fallow on a given area
(Proportion of the area under various crops at a time)
Cropping scheme : It is plan related to the most profitable use of resources, land, labour, capital
and management.
Cropping system, LS system, poultry system etc., are the sub division of farming system
Crop system is the sub division of cropping system
Mono cropping also called as mono culture
Mono cropping : one crop during one season or year.
Double crop : two crop per year
Triple crop : three crop per year
Multiple cropping : more than 2 crops per year
Parallel multiple cropping : intercropping with zero competition
Multiple cropping / Inter cropping / Mixed cropping / Relay cropping / Strip cropping : Crop
intensification is in time and space dimension
Sequential cropping : Crop intensification is only in time dimension. No intercrop competition.
Succeeding crop planted after harvesting of first crop
Relay cropping : . Succeeding crop planted before harvesting of preceding crop
Companion crop : Short duration crop planted in between sugarcane (intercrop). It harvested before elongation phase of sugarcane
Component crop : Individual crop species that are a part of multiple cropping system
Sole crop : Pure stand or Solid planting (opposite to intercropping)
Simultaneous poly culture : It includes intercropping, mixed cropping, inter culture, inter planting,
relay planting.
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Allelopathy : The any direct or indirect harmful effect that one plant has on another through the production of chemical substances that escape into the environment
Synergetic cropping : Two crops yield is higher than sole crop yield
Energy crop : Sugarcane & Tapioca
Nurse crop or Green manure crop : Tephrosia, Crotalaria
Avenue crop or Road side crop : Gliricidia, Pigeon pea
Riparian crop : pepper wort, Water bind weed
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