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multiple cropping

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noun

Agriculture.
  1. the use of the same field for two or more crops, whether of the same or of different kinds, successively during a single year.


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But a system that allows you to adopt multiple cropping sequences and conservation tillage is helping farmers in the northern Great Plains to better manage the volatility in agriculture.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this system of combined intertillage and multiple cropping the oriental farmer thus takes advantage of whatever good may result from rotation or succession of crops, whether these be physical, vito-chemical or biological.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)

We see no reason why they should not, but only with the best of irrigation, fertilization and proper rotation, with multiple cropping.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)