Question: Which of the following is a benefit of Crop Rotation?
Options:
It increases the fertility of soil
It saves water
It reduces expenditure
It increases the quantity of minerals
🔑Key Points:
• Crop Rotation:
-By growing the same type of crop continuously in the same land, the fertility of the land gradually starts getting destroyed and the production also starts decreasing.
-For this, it is necessary to sow crops alternately that it is better than to grow a crop continuously in the same field.
-The process of sowing different crops in a field every year is called crop rotation.
-Crop rotation increases the fertility of the soil.
-Crop rotation is an important part of the cropping system.
🔴Additional Information:
-Generally, crop rotation is very important for the following reasons –(A) Continuous production of one type of crop in a field may result in deficiency of any one specific nutrient or mineral which affects the fertilizer capacity of the land.(B) If the same type of crop is grown continuously, soil-borne plant diseases may arise which affect the fertilizer capacity of the soil.(C) Producing the same type of crop continuously affects the production efficiency.
-Following are the benefits of adopting crop rotation:(A) There is no deficiency of nutrients in the soil when different crops are produced by changing them under the process of crop rotation because the requirements of all plants are different.(B) Any soil-borne plant disease arising after adopting the crop rotation process gets destroyed automatically in the next season due to the absence of the host