Daily Dosage - Cropping Systems - Agronomy

CROPPING SYSTEMS

Cropping Seasons

Kharif crop : July to Oct

Rabi crop : Oct to March

Zaid crop : March to June

• Cropping pattern : Yearly sequence and spatial arrangement of crops and fallow on a given area (Proportion of the area under various crops at a time)

• Cropping scheme : It is plan related to the most profitable use of resources, land, labour, capital and management.

• Cropping system, LS system, poultry system etc., are the sub division of farming system 

• Crop system is the sub division of cropping system 

• Mono cropping also called as mono culture 

• Mono cropping : one crop during one season or year.

• Double crop : two crop per year

• Triple crop : three crop per year

• Multiple cropping : more than 2 crops per year

• Parallel multiple cropping : Intercropping with zero competition

•  Multiple cropping / Inter cropping / Mixed cropping / Relay cropping / Strip cropping : Crop intensification is in time and space dimension 

• Sequential cropping : Crop intensification is only in time dimension. No intercrop competition. Succeeding crop planted after harvesting of first crop

• Relay cropping : Succeeding crop planted before harvesting of preceding crop

• Companion crop : Short duration crop planted in between sugarcane (intercrop). It harvested before elongation phase of sugarcane

• Component crop : Individual crop species that are a part of multiple cropping system

• Sole crop : Pure stand or Solid planting (opposite to intercropping)

• Simultaneous poly culture : It includes intercropping, mixed cropping, inter culture, inter planting, relay planting.

• Allelopathy : The any direct or indirect harmful effect that one plant has on another through the production of chemical substances that escape into the environment 

• Synergetic cropping : Two crops yield is higher than sole crop yield 

• Energy crop : Sugarcane & Tapioca 

• Nurse crop or Green manure crop : Tephrosia, Crotalaria 

• Avenue crop or Road side crop : Gliricidia, Pigeon pea 

• Riparian crop : pepper wort, Water bind weed