Monoculture

Monoculture (mono = alone) is the term used to describe agricultural, horticultural or forestry land on which only one type of crop is grown in succession over several years (usually 5 years) (single-field farming). The main opposing terms are mixed cropping (simultaneous cultivation of several crop species on one area) and crop rotation (successive cultivation of different vegetable species on the same bed in the course of the season). If a field is planted exclusively with crops of a single species in one growing cycle, it is a pure crop, not a monoculture. From an ecological point of view, every monoculture is a disruptive factor in the natural balance. In the case of viticulture, it is mostly a longstanding, often even centuries-old monoculture in extreme form.

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