Sentence examples for mixed cropping from inspiring English sources

These declines were particularly marked with a shift from high intensity smallholder mixed cropping to plantation style agriculture.

Farmers were mainly exposed to pesticides in farms defined as "field crops grazing livestock combined" (36%), "specialist vineyards" (28%), and "mixed cropping" (19%).

On the contrary, DP account for an extraordinary high share of income in Specialist field crop, in Mixed livestock and crops-livestock, Specialist grazing livestock and Mixed cropping farms (Table 1).3 The relative importance of DP is higher in small farms than in medium and large farms.

Inland from the narrow coastal strip is a broad zone of mixed cropping and grazing.

Mixed cropping gave more stable yields than monoculture.

Most of the herbs by species are wild harvested or incorporated into mixed cropping systems by farmers in China.

FB MA mixed cropping had a significant effect on disease severity, AUDPC and disease progress rate.

To date, only one radio-tracking study in a mixed cropping-farmed landscape provides a fine description of the dispersal pattern of this species.

Adaptation options included shifts from mixed cropping-grazing to rangeland grazing or biomass enterprises; promoting re-assembly of native ecological communities; and maintaining ecosystem services and habitat that trees provide.

Moreover, reported pest severity was lower in mixed-cropping systems than in mono-cropping systems, reinforcing the idea of a pest suppression benefit of diverse cropping systems.

Therefore, whereas in West Africa, because of unimodal rainfall, rain-fed cropping extends northwards up to isohyets of 300 to 400 mm - coinciding with the 75-day LGP limits mixed-cropping systems in East Africa are rarely found where annual rainfall is less than 500 to 600 mm.