What are the objective of intercropping and crop rotation?

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Intercropping has following advantages:
1. Application of fertilizers is more convenient due to well defined patterns of crops.
2. Harvesting of crops is easier.
Crop rotation has following advantages:
1. It avoids decrease in soil fertility.
2. By crop rotation farmers keep their fields under continuous production.

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