MULTIPLE CROPPING SYSTEMS
Multiple cropping is a cropping system where two or three crops are gown annually on the same piece of land. This land management strategy, which is particularly widespread in tropical and subtropical agriculture, contributes to increasing the productivity and profitability of agricultural systems, reducing input use and negative environmental impact, providing better products to society, and coping with climate change pressures1
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Multiple cropping can be:
- sequential
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; - parallel (examples are mixed cropping, intercropping, relay cropping).
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SDG 2 - End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
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The introduction of sequential crops allows for the production of additional biomasses, helping decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, protecting biodiversity, improving soil use efficiency, and combining food and energy production.