- 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...
- time in a field. A
monoculture is a crop
grown by
itself in a field. A
polyculture involves two or more
crops growing in the same
place at the same time...
-
Americans planted it
alongside beans and
squashes in the
Three Sisters polyculture. The
leafy stalk of the
plant gives rise to male
inflorescences or t****els...
- to
varying local environments. The
individual crops and
their use in
polyculture originated in Mesoamerica,
where squash was
domesticated first, followed...
- both in time, as with a crop
rotation or sequence, or in space, with a
polyculture or intercropping.
Monocultures appear in
contexts outside of agriculture...
- or in space, with a
polyculture or
intercropping (see
table below). Note that the
distinction between monoculture and
polyculture is not the same as between...
- In many
traditional and
organic farming practices, crop
rotation or
polyculture involving legumes is common. By
alternating between legumes and non-legumes...
- Rice
polyculture is the
cultivation of rice and
another crop
simultaneously on the same land. The
practice exploits the
mutual benefit between rice and...
-
cultivation of two or more
crops simultaneously on the same field, a form of
polyculture. The most
common goal of
intercropping is to
produce a
greater yield...
- at the same time, are
other kinds of
annual cropping systems known as
polycultures. In
subtropical and arid environments, the
timing and
extent of agriculture...
