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Benefits of Crop Rotation Explained

Agriculturalists have long recognized that suitable rotations – such as planting spring crops for livestock in place of grains for human consumption – make it possible to restore or to maintain a productive soil. Middle Eastern farmers practised crop rotation in 6000 BC without understanding the chemistry, alternately planting legumes and cereals.

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Benefits of Crop Rotation Explained

Agriculturalists have long recognized that suitable rotations – such as planting spring crops for livestock in place of grains for human consumption – make it possible to restore or to maintain a productive soil. Middle Eastern farmers practised crop rotation in 6000 BC without understanding the chemistry, alternately planting legumes and cereals.

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Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar or different

types of crops in the same area in sequenced seasons. It is done so that


the soil of farms is not used to only one type of nutrient. It helps in reducing
soil erosion and increases soil fertility and crop yield.
Growing the same crop in the same place for many years in a row
disproportionately depletes the soil of certain nutrients. With rotation, a crop
that leaches the soil of one kind of nutrient is followed during the next
growing season by a dissimilar crop that returns that nutrient to the soil or
draws a different ratio of nutrients. In addition, crop rotation mitigates the
buildup of pathogens and pests that often occurs when one species is
continuously cropped, and can also improve soil structure and fertility by
increasing biomass from varied root structures.

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