General agriculture

General agriculture

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energy crops

Agriculture; General agriculture

Crops grown specifically to provide the raw materials for energy production, including food crops such as corn and sugarcane and nonfood crops such as poplar trees and switchgrass.

grain crops

Agriculture; General agriculture

Crops, mostly grass crops, that are grown for their edible seeds, such as corn, wheat, rye, buckwheat, amaranth, and etc. Grain markets include soybeans as grains.

cover crops

Agriculture; General agriculture

A crop grown between periods of regular production of the main crop for the purposes of protecting the soil from erosion and improving soil productivity, health and quality.

multiple cropping

Agriculture; General agriculture

The growing of more than one crop consecutively in the same field in a single year.

companion crops

Agriculture; General agriculture

Crops that are compatible with each other and are grown at the same time on the same land.

monoxenic culture

Agriculture; General agriculture

a culture containing one species growing in the presence of one other species.

A farming system, common in the tropics, in which land is cleared, the debris burned, and crops grown for a relatively short period until yields decline. The land is then abandoned. The original land ...