Know About Multiple Cropping

Cropping is selecting plants for cultivation in a field orchard according to their desired characteristics and eliminating the entire plant from the ground leastwise once during its growth sequence.

FREMONT, CA: Cropping enhances yield, quality, or other agricultural considerations. Cropping may be performed by hand, with an agricultural tool like a hoe, or with an agricultural machine.

Meaning of cropping in agriculture

Cropping is selecting specific plants from a larger field to be grown for their required harvest. This can be done by hand, using a tillage tool, or with a machine.

Cropping decisions are according to many factors, including the desired yield, how much space the plant will use, and whether the plant is immune to a specific disease or pests.

Definition of Multiple Cropping

Multiple Cropping is the growth of more than one crop from the same land in a year.

Objectives of Multiple Cropping

• To maximize the cropping intensity.

• To raise the land-use intensity.

• To gain more crops from the same field in a year.

• To increase the use of land and time.

• To improve the scope of land utilization and diversification of farming.

• To boost cash income.

• To cover the risk of low market prices and adverse climate on crops.

Advantages/Importance of Multiple Cropping

• It increases production per unit area.

• It offers a wider variety of crops.

• It enhances the farmer’s net income.

• It expands the scope of land utilization and diversification of farming.

• It enables better adjustment of planting time of crops.

• It allows better usage of labor.

• It saves foreign currency expenditure.

• It reduces the food deficit.

Disadvantages/Limitations of Multiple Cropping

• It hampers seed crop production.

• It hampers intercultural operations.

• It decreases nutrient status in soil.

• It creates difficulties in adapting farm mechanization.

In some considerable cropping systems, interspecific competition occurs.