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What is Mixed Cropping? Write its advantages.

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Mixed cropping is the practice of growing two or more crops simultaneously on the same piece of land. 

Some mixed cropping practices are: 

(a) Soyabean + Pigeon pea 

(b) Wheat + Mustard 

Advantages of mixed cropping: 

The risk of total crop failure, due to uncertain monsoon, is reduced. Farmers tend to harvest a variety of products such as cereals, pulses, vegetables or fodder, to meet the various requirement of family or of agricultural farms.



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