Rotation of Crops, Succession, and Companion Cropping - Paperback

by John Davidson (Author), Mendon Cottage Books (Editor), Dueep Jyot Singh (Author)

Table of Contents Introduction Benefits of Crop Rotation Plant Rotation for Disease Control and Insect Control Relation with Crop Plants with Their Following Plants Soil Reaction Leftover Organic Matter Difference in Root System Characteristics and Growth Order of Crop Rotation Companion Cropping Benefits of Intercropping Successional Cropping Examples for Succession Cropping Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction The moment you hear about crop rotation, you start to think about a method where you are going to be growing different crops in a more or less regular sequence on the same land. This is normally applied to systematic crop production throughout the growing seasons every year.