Three-Year Crop Rotation Explained
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ScribdTranslationsTRIENNIAL ROTATION
The three-year rotation was a farming system characteristic of Atlantic Europe during the Middle Ages. It was based on
in the succession in the field of cultivation of a winter cereal in the first part of the year, a cereal of
spring the second part of the year and at the end of the year fallow. It occurred in the Middle Ages, as in this
At that time, agriculture must have been very advanced in a farming land, as it was their only means of payment.
taxes on the nobles and to rescue a family from the famine that was experienced in this era.
What is the difference between fallow land and three-year crop rotation?
Many people confuse these two terms, but the reality is very simple: fallow land is the land.
which is allowed to rest for a year or two so that it is fertilized and regains all its properties so that
the harvest is productive in this land. On the other hand, when we talk about the triennial rotation in cultivation,
using one land for cereals, another resting, and the last for any other type of crop, to this
land rotation is what we call triannual rotation
Advantages and disadvantages of the three-year rotation
The three-year rotation has many advantages: it increases the variety of products obtained in relation to the
biennial rotation, since the products change every year, increases the quantity and quality of the
products obtained, as the land is more fertile after having a year of rest, the health of the
farmers are better since they eat a greater variety of products than if they do not use the triennial rotation, etc.
There are many advantages to having a three-year rotation, but it also has some drawbacks: If the following year...
in a year of rest there is a poor harvest or no harvest, the farmers can starve since
They do not have food stored for two years, although the disadvantages are much less than the advantages.
that has a triennial rotation.
MAN WHO CAME TO THE MOON
Neil Alden Armstrong was the first human to set foot on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission.
At 2:56:20 AM (Coordinated Universal Time) on July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon and said
his famous phrase: 'That's one small step for man, but one giant leap for mankind.'
one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind
MOVEMENTS OF THE EARTH
Rotation movement.
It is a movement that the Earth makes by rotating on its own axis.
west to east along an imaginary axis called axis
land that passes through its poles. One complete turn, taking
As a reference to the stars, it lasts 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds.
seconds and is called a sidereal day. If we take as a reference
to the Sun, the same meridian passes in front of our star every 24
hours, called solar day. The 3 minutes and 56 seconds of
differences are due to the fact that during that period of time the Earth has
advanced in its orbit and must rotate slightly more than a sidereal day
to complete a solar day. The first reference taken by the
man was the Sun, whose apparent movement, originated in the
Earth's rotation determines day and night, giving the
impression that the sky revolves around the planet. In use
colloquial language uses the word day to designate this
phenomenon, which in astronomy is referred to as a solar day and
it corresponds to solar time.
Translation Movement.
It is a movement by which the planet Earth rotates.
in an orbit around the Sun. In 365 days with 6
hours, those 6 hours accumulate every year,
After 4 years, it becomes 24 hours (1
day). Every four years there is a year that has 366
days, which is referred to as a leap year. The cause of
this movement is the action of gravity, and
creates a series of changes that, like the day,
they allow the measurement of time. Taking as
referring to the Sun, what is called a year results
tropical, necessary lapse for them to repeat the
seasons of the year. It lasts 365 days, 5 hours, 48
minutes and 45 seconds. The movement described
it is an elliptical trajectory of 930 million
kilometers, at an average distance from the Sun of
practically 150 million kilometers or 1 A.U.
(Astronomical Unit: 149,675,000 km). From this, it is deduced that the Earth moves at an average speed
at 106,200 km/h (29.5 km/s). The Earth's path or orbit is elliptical. The Sun occupies one of the foci of the
ellipse and, due to the eccentricity of the orbit, the distance between the Sun and the Earth varies throughout the year. In
the first days of January reach the closest proximity to the Sun, occurring at perihelion, where the
the distance is 147.5 million km, while in the first days of July the maximum is reached.
farthest point, called aphelion, where the distance is 152.6 million km. As seen in the graph of
Above, the Earth's axis forms an angle of about 23.5º with respect to the normal of the ecliptic, phenomenon
called the obliquity of the ecliptic. This inclination, combined with the translation, produces two long
periods of several months of continuous light and darkness at the geographic poles, besides being the cause of
the seasons of the year, derived from the change in the angle of incidence of solar radiation.