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Crop Diversification: Introduction, Factors Promoting Diversification

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Introduction

Diversification is required in structural forms of agriculture like cropping pattern, livestock structure, or agricultural enterprises. It indicates multiplication of agricultural activities competing for farm space. More the competition, higher is the magnitude of diversification, and lesser the competition, higher is the specialization or monoculture.

Diversification occurs when

  • Crop or cropping system shifts from one form to another.
  • There is best utilization of resources by changing and modifying degree, trend, and time of cropping activities.
  • There is shift from l…

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Crop Diversification: Need and Importance for Crop Diversification, Need and Importance for Crop Diversification, Major Constraints in Crop Diversification, Future Thrust Areas

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Need and Importance for Crop Diversification

Crop diversification has become important tool for attaining following objectives:

  • Natural resources sustainability
  • Ecological balance
  • Output growth
  • Buffer stocks
  • Employment generation
  • Risk reduction by moving away from high risk mono-cropping to poly-cropping or through multiple farm activities
  • Promoting exports by planting exotic crops together with staple crops
  • Poverty alleviation
  • Increasing farm income
  • Sustainable production and income
  • Food and nutrient security
  • Judicious use and conservation of land and water resources
  • Reduced environmental pollution
Tablutation of: Issues, Role of D…

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