intertillagen.
U.S.
Intercropping.
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water farming1811
catch-cropping1851
sharecropping1877
intercropping1898
intertillage1912
strip-cropping1936
alley farming1984
1912 L. A. Morehouse in Bull. Bureau Plant Industry, U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 260. 60 Regular intertillage can not be omitted without incurring losses.
Derivatives
interˈtilled adj.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [adjective] > intercropped
stolen1861
intertilled1912
1912 L. A. Morehouse in Bull. Bureau Plant Industry, U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 260. 55 The alfalfa roots give some trouble at times, especially with the first cultivations of an intertilled crop, but this difficulty does not seem to be encountered when the cantaloupe or the cucumber is selected as the initial crop in the rotation.
1914 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 270 The intertilled crop has in many sections largely taken the place of fallow.
1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Dec. 1572/3 The schemes of the Altai region to replace fallow and grass with intertilled crops (sugar-beet, maize, and fodder beans).
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