Definition of monocrop in US English:
monocrop
noun ˈmänəˌkräpˈmänəˌkräp
A cultivated crop that does not rotate with other crops in a particular field or area.
as modifier bananas grown in a monocrop system for commercial production
Example sentencesExamples
- They plant monocrops in which hundreds of acres are dedicated to a single plant, and they remain involved in a system in which the typical American meal travels 1,200 miles from farm to fork.
- The relative importance of root and shoot competition between individual plants in ryegrass monocrops was determined by inserting metal tubes in the soil around seedlings to exclude root competition.
- Anderson details colonial policies, the shifting boom/bust extractive efforts (including that of Brazil nuts, turtle oil, tars and caulks, fishing, and plantation monocrops), and the role of the elites in colonization.
- Agricultural economists would have us consider variable and fixed costs in answering that question for monocrops of bell peppers or tomatoes, most often sold at low wholesale prices.
- The Green Revolution package that is applied to the main fields includes the use of herbicides, effectively turning maize into a monocrop.