Cropping practices

Crop rotation maintains?

• Soil Nutrients

• Moisture

• Air Quality

• Pest Attacks

Answer explanation

Crop rotation helps return nutrients to the soil without manmade chemicals. The practice works by helping to keep pest away and increase the soil mass from planting different crops.

Allowing the field to remain vacant for one full season is called crop rotation.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Fallow is a farming technique in crop rotation where the land is left without growing any crops for more than one cycle. This helps the land to recover.

Which of the following list of crops are grown by crop rotation?

• Corn, tomato, peppers

• Sunflower, spinach, lettuce

• Tomato, peppers, soybean

• Cabbage, sweet potato, carrots

Answer explanation

The image shows the process of ____________ with ____ types of crops.

Describe the process of inter-row cropping.

What steps do you need to implement to start your home garden using one of the cropping methods.