Milpa
Sign in to saveupright=1.35|thumb|A milpa in Central America. The corn stalks have been bent and left to dry with cobs in place to indicate the planting of other crops.
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upright=1.35|thumb|A milpa in Central America. The corn stalks have been bent and left to dry with cobs in place to indicate the planting of other crops.
In agriculture, a milpa is a field for growing food crops and a crop-growing system used throughout Mesoamerica, especially in the Yucatán Peninsula, in Mexico. The word milpa derives from the Nahuatl words milli and pan. Based on the agronomy of the Maya and of other Mesoamerican peoples, the milpa system is used to produce crops of maize, beans, and squash primarily.
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