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    practices Cover crop Crop destruction Crop residue Crop rotation Crop weed Kharif crops (crops specific to South Asia) Nurse crop Rabi crops (crops specific...
    11 KB (1,171 words) - 20:55, 5 May 2024
  • multiple cropping systems where crops are harvested together. It can take the form of double-cropping, in which a second crop is planted after the first has...
    3 KB (360 words) - 20:38, 27 August 2023
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    A crop circle, crop formation, or corn circle is a pattern created by flattening a crop, usually a cereal. The term was first coined in the early 1980s...
    57 KB (6,436 words) - 20:34, 2 May 2024
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    intensified. Row crops are valuable precursors of spring grain crops, flax, and hemp. The beneficial effect of row crops extends to the second crop. Examples...
    3 KB (291 words) - 06:00, 19 April 2023
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    Crop milk is a secretion from the lining of the crop of parent birds in some species that is regurgitated to young birds. It is found among all pigeons...
    9 KB (934 words) - 04:46, 7 February 2024
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    Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area across a sequence of growing seasons. This practice reduces...
    41 KB (4,824 words) - 11:41, 30 April 2024
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    In agriculture, polyculture is the practice of growing more than one crop species together in the same place at the same time, in contrast to monoculture...
    36 KB (3,909 words) - 14:54, 27 April 2024
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    Intercropping (redirect from Inter-cropping)
    Intercropping is a multiple cropping practice that involves the cultivation of two or more crops simultaneously on the same field, a form of polyculture...
    14 KB (1,585 words) - 03:59, 9 May 2024
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    Cereal (redirect from Cereal crop)
    grass cultivated for its edible grain. Cereals are the world's largest crops, and are therefore staple foods. They include rice, wheat, rye, oats, barley...
    59 KB (5,149 words) - 23:13, 8 May 2024
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    Legume (redirect from Pulse (crop))
    role in crop rotation. The term pulse, as used by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is reserved for legume crops harvested...
    31 KB (3,291 words) - 00:40, 13 May 2024
  • Next spring, using seed from the first harvest, they planted their second crop, only to watch in dismay as the crickets attacked. Less than two years...
    10 KB (1,161 words) - 20:33, 27 December 2023
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    Buckwheat (category Crops originating from Asia)
    knotweed family Polygonaceae cultivated for its grain-like seeds and as a cover crop. Buckwheat originated around the 6th millennium BCE in the region of what...
    34 KB (3,674 words) - 02:43, 16 May 2024
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    Tractor (redirect from Row-crop tractor)
    Protective Structure (CROPS)". National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Retrieved 21 January 2015. "Tragedy averted: 90-second video speaks to...
    83 KB (10,116 words) - 08:33, 11 May 2024
  • A trap crop is a plant that attracts agricultural pests, usually insects, away from nearby target crops. This form of companion planting can save a target...
    11 KB (1,309 words) - 15:12, 25 November 2023
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    Genetically modified crops (GM crops) are plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering methods. Plant genomes...
    164 KB (16,857 words) - 05:50, 18 March 2024
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    ISBN 9781350130845. "Water available in Bhavani Sagar reservoir sufficient for second crop". The Hindu. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2023. "Water released...
    5 KB (402 words) - 20:38, 27 April 2024
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    Vintage Crop (1 March 1987 – 14 July 2014) was a British-bred Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse best known for becoming the first northern hemisphere...
    11 KB (998 words) - 10:27, 22 March 2023
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    Its fast growth under cold conditions favors the usage as fodder as a second crop. Its low biomass production makes it undesirable to concentrate on pennycress...
    18 KB (2,090 words) - 14:54, 20 November 2023
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    is from the second crop of foals sired by Pioneerof the Nile, who finished second in the 2009 Kentucky Derby. The stallion's first crop included Holy...
    117 KB (11,000 words) - 04:19, 28 April 2024
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    He was an immediate success when his first crop reached racing age in 1968. The success of his second crop, led by English Triple Crown winner Nijinsky...
    91 KB (8,935 words) - 14:22, 5 May 2024
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