Social Sustainability
Polyculture
Growing multiple crop or livestock species together in the same space, using diversity to improve resilience, soil health and pest control.
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Polyculture is the simultaneous cultivation of two or more crop species — or integrated combinations of crops, livestock, trees or fish — on the same land in the same season, in contrast to monoculture. Forms include intercropping, relay cropping, agroforestry and integrated rice-fish systems, exploiting complementary resource use and ecological interactions among species.
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