Pick & Write [Agricultural Word]👇#17 : Crop Rotation

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"Crop Rotation"

Agricultural activities has becoming more active as human beings recognize day by day that the only way in which they can meet up with their daily food consuming needs , is to get involve in agriculture.

As the consequence to such ideal, humans in concerned to farmer's have already evolved different ways of growing crops.

Upon all of those uniquely evolved ways Crop Rotation is a one among others.

"What do I mean by the given Crop Rotation"

Crop Rotation is the vital privilege given to farmer's to enable them grow different crops within a parcel of farm land.

With the knowledge of crop rotation farmer's can then use a definite parcel of farm land and divide them into two or more portion within the given parcel of land. Purposefully to allowing those concerned farmer's to grow variety of crops .

When desire to get involve into crop rotation then, you ought to understand that there are manners involved. Such manners do help the concerned farmer's to maintain a continuous soil health for improves crop yields.

So , now you might probably ask what are those manners?

Get this , here I intentionally use manners with such recognition that your own manners define who you are to some other person's. In essence , once you possessed good or bad manners other people around you would know and yourself would also know.

Moreso , with crop rotation if you know and as well do applying these manners am about to brief, you often get good and desirable yields.

Briefly note:

• There are crop species
• There are crop pests and pathogens

Here you need to understand that all the plants crop aren't under same species, group , or family. That , there are families in which a specific crop belong . For an example cereals and legumes are two different species, while doing soil rotation you need to note it closely.

In essence , you also need to use your discretion because of soil type and the area factors.

Furthermore , there are heavy feeder's and light feeder's.

Heavy feeder's are those nature of crops that feeds heavily , as the result they stand to reduce soil health . That due to large amount of soil nutrients consume by those crops while growing to edible.

Light feeder's these type of crops are not heavily feeds , rather they are more as nitrogen fixers. They consume less nutrients from the soil and also give more nutrients to the soil promoting soil health .

When you understand such for an instance while growing a cassava for a two years plan after which you can probably grow groundnut and while growing pepper , wheat and tomatoes on a rotating year you might probably switch to onions , soyabeans and all of that.

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Here you have to note closely that , there are pests and pathogens which can possibly damage crops growth and generally effects their yields.

So, with an effective practice of crop rotation you can manage concentrating activities of pests and pathogens.

With the base knowledge that every single pest and pathogen do play around their host.

The host of pest and pathogen are the crop plants. And the best thing is , not all the crops that are host to pests and pathogens.

So, when you rotate crops. You likely reduce the activity of pest. Because once pest can't find their host , they won't remain there rather move away to where they can feeds upon their host when found.

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