AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In agriculture, monocropping is the practice of growing a single crop year after year on the same land. Maize, soybeans, and wheat are three common crops often monocropped.

Detailed explanation-2: -Monoculture/solely crop production farms are the farming types by which farmers grow only crops, both annual crops/trees and field crops, such as wheat, corn, rice, rapeseed, sugar cane, and cotton.

Detailed explanation-3: -Monocropping involves continuously planting the same crop for multiple seasons, while monoculture is planting a field with a single crop for a season. An organic farm may choose to grow only squash plants in one field-this is monoculture.

Detailed explanation-4: -Monoculture farming is a form of agriculture that is based on growing only one type of a crop at one time on a specific field. In contrast, a polyculture system assumes that a field is sown with two or more crops at a time.

Detailed explanation-5: -By growing just one crop species in a field at a time, monocultures enable farmers to use machinery, increasing the efficiency of activities like planting and harvesting. But despite supplying the lion’s share of the world’s food, monocultures are amongst the most controversial features of today’s agriculture.