Question

The farming of more than one crop on a piece of land during the year is known as _____.

• A. Mono cropping
• B. Inter culture
• C. Plantation farming
• D. Multiple cropping

Answer 1

The correct option is D Multiple cropping

• In agriculture, multiple cropping is the practice of growing two or more crops in the same piece of land during a single growing season. It is a form of polyculture.
  
• Multiple cropping is a form of Ecological Intensification that is potentially highly sustainable when two or more crops are grown at the same time or in a sequence.
  
• The use of the same field for two or more crops, whether of the same or of different kinds, successively during a single year.