multiple cropping

noun

, Agriculture.

1. the use of the same field for two or more crops, whether of the same or of different kinds, successively during a single year.

Example Sentences

But a system that allows you to adopt multiple cropping sequences and conservation tillage is helping farmers in the northern Great Plains to better manage the volatility in agriculture.

From Time Magazine Archive

We see no reason why they should not, but only with the best of irrigation, fertilization and proper rotation, with multiple cropping.

From Project Gutenberg

The quick maturity of these crops also permits them to be used to great advantage even throughout the south, in their systems of multiple cropping so generally adopted, while their great resistance to drought, being able to remain at a standstill for a long time when the soil is too dry for growth and yet be able to push ahead rapidly when favorable rains come, permits them to be used on the higher lands generally where water is not available for irrigation.

From Project Gutenberg

They have long realized that much time is required to transform organic matter into forms available for plant food and although they are the heaviest users in the world, the largest portion of this organic matter is predigested with soil or subsoil before it is applied to their fields, and at an enormous cost of human time and labor, but it practically lengthens their growing season and enables them to adopt a system of multiple cropping which would not otherwise be possible.

From Project Gutenberg

The general practice of planting nearly all crops in rows lends itself readily to systems of multiple cropping, and these to the fullest possible utilization of every minute of the growing season and of the time of the family in caring for the crops.

From Project Gutenberg