Rotation of Crops, Succession, and Companion Cropping

John Davidson

• 25 december 2015
• 9781310214011

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Benefits of Crop Rotation
Plant Rotation for Disease Control and Insect Control
Relation with Crop Plants with Their Following Plants
Soil Reaction
Leftover Organic Matter
Difference in Root System Characteristics and Growth
Order of Crop Rotation
Companion Cropping
Benefits of Intercropping
Successional Cropping
Examples for Succession Cropping
Conclusion
Author Bio
Publisher

Introduction

The moment you hear about crop rotation, you start to think about a method where you are going to be growing different crops in a more or less regular sequence on the same land. This is normally applied to systematic crop production throughout the growing seasons every year.