Monoculture.

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  • Author(s): Power, J.F.; Follett, R.F.
  • Source:
    Scientific American. Mar87, Vol. 256 Issue 3, p79. 8p. 3 Color Photographs, 2 Black and White Photographs, 4 Diagrams, 2 Graphs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      AGRICULTURE; CROPPING systems; TECHNOLOGY; MULTIPLE cropping
    • Abstract:
      Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of monoculture, the practice which entails growing the same crop on the same land repeatedly. Advantages for farmers; Chief forces driving the shift toward monoculture; Influence of technological changes on monoculture; Changes in the hydrologic and physical properties of the soil due to erosion; Hazards of monoculture; Overview of multiple cropping.