Deutsch: Fruchtwechsel / Español: Rotación de cultivos / Português: Rotação de culturas / Français: Rotation des cultures / Italiano: Rotazione colturale /

A Crop Rotation is Planting a succession of different crops on the same land rea as opposed to planting the same crop time after time.
Other /More definition:
A Crop rotation is Planting the same field or areas of fields with different crops from year to year to reduce depletion of soil nutrients. A plant such as corn, tobacco, or cotton, which remove large amounts of nitrogen from the soil, is planted one year. The next year a legume such as soybeans, which add nitrogen to the soil, is planted.

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