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Crop rotation: Crop choice of Legumes

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Crop rotation: Crop choice of Legumes Leguminous plant are belong from family of Fabaceae. Generally, legume plant is well known as being able to utilize the atmospheric nitrogen and important plant in crop rotation. It is because when legumes are grown as rotation crop, it reduces the total grain production per farm when compared to continuous cropping. Legume is giving the great advantage of crop rotation in term of crop rotation from the terms of interrelationship of nitrogen-fixation with nitrogen demanding crops. Examples of legume plant for crop rotation are soybean, groundnuts and peas.      Farmers know that the value of growing legume along with their main crops or between harvest. Legume can replace the nitrogen used by the crop and provide a cover for the soil in order to protect it from the heavy rain and strong winds. Besides the legume tree planted at field also provide shade and protect young crop plants from the heat of sun. Furthermore, legumes have heav
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Crop Rotation: Crop Choices for Row Crops

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The Row Crop Cultivation    Generally, crop rotation is a “system of growing different kinds of crops in recurrent succession on the same land” (Martin, Leonard, and Stamp, Principles of Field Crop Production, 1976). Thus, in the strictest sense, crop rotation is more than just changing crops from year to year based on current economic situations. Rather, it is a long-term plan for soil and farm management.                                                       Figure 1: Three crops in a corn in a corn-soybean-wheat/red clover rotation.      First of all , row crop cultivation can be a very good weed control technique. It works well to control weeds that are growing between rows of crops; one of the main things that make row cultivation good is that it can be used when the weeds are rather large (up to 15 cm tall). Most other in crop weed control techniques that are used work best when weeds are only at the cotyledon stage. With that being said row crop cultivatio
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WHAT IS CROP ROTATION ?

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CROP ROTATION WHAT IS CROP ROTATION Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area in sequenced seasons. It is done so that the soil of farms is not used for only one set of nutrients. It helps in reducing soil erosion and increases soil fertility and crop yield. Crop rotation involves a variety of agricultural techniques, such as tillage, and the use of fertilizers and chemical pesticide. It also involves land improvement measures, such as irrigation, drainage and the application of chemicals for soil improvement.                       Crop rotation also prevents plant diseases and pests by exchanging crops that may be susceptible to a particular diseases or pest with a crop that is not susceptible. For example, corn is affected by corn root worms, soybeans are not. The soybeans help suppress the pest so that the corn planted the following year will not be as adversely affected by it. There is no limit to the number
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Crop rotation increase the soil fertility and prevent the soil  erosion F igure 1: crop rotation Crop rotation is the systematic planting of different crops in a particular order over several years in the same  growing space. This process helps maintain nutrients in the soil  such as three main nutrients are nitrogen,phosphorus pota ssi um(NPK) , reduce soil erosion, and prevents plant diseases and pests.   O ther importan t  nutrients are calcium,magnesium and sulfur.   The length of rotation time between different plants will also vary depending on the needs of the gardener. F igure 2: soil erosion   Soil organic matter and clay particles hold large stores of plant nutrients. These reservoirs, however, are not all available to the crop. Some of these nutrients leave the farm as harvested products, and the rest return to the soil as crop residues.   Crop roots and residues improve soil fertility by stimulating soil microbial communities and improving soil 
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Crop Rotation: Planning and Implementing a Rotation

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Crop Rotation: Planning and Implementing a Rotation Generally, crop rotation is the practice of growing different types of crops in the same area in sequenced. It is done so that the soils of farms are not used for only one set of nutrients. Therefore, there will be a planning and implementation of crop rotation. Planning crop rotation means planning an effective rotation that requires weighing and fluctuating production circumstances: market, farm size, labor supply, climate, soil type, growing practices and etc. Planning should be doing first before start doing implementation. The planning has many things that need to be considered. Next, implementation of crop rotation may be enriched by the influences of other practices such as the addition of livestock and manure, inter cropping or multiple cropping and organic management.              The most important planning that need to be considered in crop rotation are climate. Producers need to match their crop rotation with
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