英和和英

別の表記

• multi-cropping

名詞

multicropping ‎(usually uncountable, 複数形 multicroppings)

1. The practice of growing two or more crops on the same piece of land during a single growing season.
   • 1978 December, Samuel G. Unger, George W. Bailey, Environmental Implications of Trends in Agriculture and Silviculture, Volume 2: Environmental Effects of Trends, US Environmental Protection Agency, page 28,

     Multicropping practices will increase in some areas; however, it is doubtful if year-round cropping will occur throughout most of the U.S.

   • 1998, Brien A. Meilleur, Clones within Clones: Cosmology and Esthetics and Polynesian Crop Selection, Anthropologica, Volume XL, Number 1, page 76,

     Other researchers have shown interest in multiple cultivar phenomena among indigenous and peasant peoples by studying the distribution and merits of polyculture and multicropping in the tropics.

   • 2000, B. A. M. Bouman, R. Roetter, R. A. Schipper, A. G. Laborte, Regional land-use analysis to support agricultural and environmental policy formulation, T. P. Tuong (editor), Characterizing and Understanding Rainfed Environments, page 463,

     Farms with relatively abundant labor compared with their farm size are less likely to engage in multicropping.

同意語

• (practice of planting more than one crop in the same place): multiple cropping, polyculture