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A Review of Advantages, Disadvantages and Challenges of Crop Rotations

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Agronomy

Abstract

Crop rotation is the most important cropping system can help to minimize the applicationĀ of fertilizers and herbicides, thereby decreased food contamination with agrochemical residue and increase structure of soil microbial communities. Furthermore, among other benefits, additional benefits also can be gained such as high land use efficiency, superior yield stability, well distributing of labor contribution over the growing season by the way which allows for more choice when deciding on change one practice or more, larger variety of produce, less dependence on storage, greater market opportunities by making a balance in the crop production. Recently, many researches showed that crop rotation is a foundational component of sustainability and long-term profitability without any requirements to additional financial investments. Finally, crop rotation can be recommended in many regions as valuable practices for refining sustainability and long term profitability.

DOI

10.21608/agro.2019.6606.1139

Keywords

Sequential-cropping, Mono-cropping, crop rotation, crop sequences

Authors

First Name

Mostafa

Last Name

Selim

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Affiliation

Field Crops Research Department, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

Email

selim_family@hotmail.com

City

Cairo

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Volume

41

Article Issue

1

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5302

Issue Date

2019-04-01

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2018-12-11

Publish Date

2019-04-01

Page Start

1

Page End

10

Print ISSN

0379-3575

Online ISSN

2357-0288

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Review Article

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20

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Agronomy

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https://agro.journals.ekb.eg/

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A Review of Advantages, Disadvantages and Challenges of Crop Rotations

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22 Jan 2023