F08 Cropping patterns and systems

 

F Plant  production
F08 Cropping patterns and systems

See also: K10 for Forestry production;

Sequence in which crops are grown and spatial arrangements of crops and fallow and interactions

with livestock activities;

Single cropping, multiple cropping, intercropping, catch cropping, intensive cropping, exhaustive

cropping;

Rotational cropping systems: different crops grown in succession on the same land in a fixed sequence

chiefly to preserve the productive capacity of the soi;l

Shifting cultivation referring to cultivation of a non-settled nature, involving the production of

crops for subsistence followed by vegetable fallow;

Fallow systems: sequences of crop years and fallow years;

Agro-forestry, involving agro-silvicultural systems (forest crops associated with agricultural crops),

silvo-pastoral systems (forest crops associated with grazing pastures), or agro-silvo-pastoral

systems (simultaneous combination of forestry with cropping and grazing);

Dry farming; desert, arid-zone farming;

Organic farming, biodynamic farming.

 

For: agrarian systems, see E90

animal husbandry, see L01

crop husbandry, see F01

cultivation under irrigation, see F06

farming systems, see E20

forest grazing, see L02

hydroponics and other special methods of plant cultivation, see F01

range and grassland management, see F01

soil cultivation, see F07

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