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प्रश्न
Explain the advantages and disadvantages of mixed cropping.
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उत्तर
Following are the advantages of mixed cropping:
- It reduces the risk of crop failure due to environmental stress.
- Pest infestation of crops is greatly reduced.
- It increases soil fertility.
- It increases the yield of both the crops due to complementary effect of each crop.
- Farmers tend to harvest a variety of produce such as cereal, pulses or vegetables or fodder to meet the various requirements of family or of an agricultural farm.
Following are the disadvantages of mixed cropping:
- Applying fertilisers to individual crops is very difficult.
- Spraying pesticides to individual crops is difficult.
- Harvesting and threshing of crops separately are not possible.
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