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<h2 id="benefits-of-multiple-cropping">Benefits of multiple cropping</h2> <p>Adopting the practice of multiple cropping on a large scale can help in reducing the food crises of a country. The overall cost of input decreases, cost spent on fertilizers, irrigation, labour, etc. reduces because of growing two or more than two crops on the same field. Risk of weed growth, pest and disease infestation reduces because of mutual relationship within the crop. This results in better farm management and increased income of the farmer. However, only 5% of global rainfed cropland is under multiple cropping, while 40% of global irrigated cropland is under multiple cropping.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>In China, the <a href="/facts/Land_Reform_Movement_(China)/uyd9fbGp">land reform movement</a> and <a href="/facts/Collective_farming/lSyD3fCR">collectivization of farming</a> facilitated double-cropping in the south of the country, leading to a major increase in agricultural yields.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>: 116 </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Forest_gardening/99NHU3ux">Forest gardening</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Intercropping/AXChXkSL">Intercropping</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Nurse_crop/9kyTmNNv">Nurse crop</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Succession_planting/maT1ek4l">Succession planting</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><i>Improving nutrition through home gardening</i> <a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/X3996E/x3996e36.htm#P1_33">Home Garden Technology Leaflet 12: Multiple cropping</a>, FAO, 2001</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Abhishek, Aditya (2020-09-19). "MULTIPLE CROPPING- Definition, Benefits and Selection of Crops". Agriculture Review. Retrieved 2020-12-14. <a href="https://agriculturereview.com/2020/09/multiple-cropping-definition-benefits-and-selection-of-crops.html" target="_blank">https://agriculturereview.com/2020/09/multiple-cropping-definition-benefits-and-selection-of-crops.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Bunnett, R.B. (2002). Interactive Geography 4, p. 98. SNP Pan Pacific Publishing. ISBN 981-208-657-9. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Multiple cropping could help feed the world". CGIAR. Retrieved 2020-12-14. <a href="https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/multiple-cropping-could-help-feed-the-world/" target="_blank">https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/multiple-cropping-could-help-feed-the-world/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Harrell, Stevan (2023). An Ecological History of Modern China. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-75171-9. <a href="978-0-295-75171-9" target="_blank">978-0-295-75171-9</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>