Intercropping
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13 sectionsContents
- Methods
- Mixed intercropping
- Row crops
- Temporal
- Alley cropping
- Potential benefits
- Resource partitioning
- Pest management
- Limitations
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
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Intercropping is a multiple cropping practice that involves the 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 on a given piece of land by making use of resources or ecological processes that would otherwise not be utilized by a single crop.