crop rotationnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈkrɒp rəʊˌteɪ.ʃən/us/ˈkrɑːp roʊˌteɪ.ʃən/a method of farming where a number of different plants are grown one after the other on a field so that the soil stays healthy and fertile (= able to produce crops)
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Farming - general words
- agrarian
- agriculture
- arable
- corn earworm
- farming
- food security
- harrow
- harvest
- homestead
- produce
- PYO
- rabi
- reap
- rick
- seed
- slash-and-burn
- subsistence farming
- the Agrarian Revolution
- thrash
- till
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Examples from literature
- Crop rotation kept soil nutrients high and avoided over-farming.
- The old forms of crop rotation with fallow periods were often displaced by legume-rotation field-grass agriculture.