multiple cropping

American  

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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Example Sentences

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

They have long realized that much time is required to transform organic matter into forms available for plant food and although they are the heaviest users in the world, the largest portion of this organic matter is predigested with soil or subsoil before it is applied to their fields, and at an enormous cost of human time and labor, but it practically lengthens their growing season and enables them to adopt a system of multiple cropping which would not otherwise be possible.

From Project Gutenberg

The general practice of planting nearly all crops in rows lends itself readily to systems of multiple cropping, and these to the fullest possible utilization of every minute of the growing season and of the time of the family in caring for the crops.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

Multiple cropping, closer stands on the ground and stronger growth, all mean the transpiration of much more water per acre through the crops, and this can only be rendered possible through a redistribution of the run-off and the adoption of irrigation practices in humid climates where water exists in abundance.

From Project Gutenberg