crop-rotateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

crop-rotate (三人称単数 現在形 crop-rotates, 現在分詞 crop-rotating, 過去形および過去分詞形 crop-rotated)

1. To practice crop rotation in growing (a particular crop)
   • 2009 December 3, "Gerard", “Can't Beet Sugar Cane”, in The Scope, number 95, page 3:

     Sugar beet needs a lot of (petrochemical) weed killers, has to be crop-rotated (so the processors are four times as far apart, which means longer shipping routes), and the processors and evaporators are energy hogs.

   • 2012 November 27, Michael R. Edelstein; Astrid Cerny; Abror Gadaev, Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea and Its Lessons for Sustainability, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 167:

     Currently, cotton is crop rotated with winter wheat in Uzbekistan after cotton is harvested. This is an advantage in diversification for soil health and food security.