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Mixed Cropping-A Review

Volume : 29
Issue: Jan-jan
Pages: 3 - 14
Published: November 14, 2023
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Abstract


Mixed cropping is a system of Agriculture in which two or more crops are grown together at the same time in the same land. It is a common practice in tropical countries both with annual field crops and with perennial plants like fruit trees, flower plants and plantation crops. This type of cropping prevails in Africa, India, Ceylon, Malaya, China and West Indies. It is also usual to grow annual herbaceous crops in the midst of woody perennial trees of economic importance such as coconut, mango, jack and other fruit trees. "The group of plants growing together form a plant society like the natural plant societies that occur on any piece of land leit to nature." (Willis, 1909).

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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