FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Crop rotation replaces a crop that is susceptible to a serious pest with another crop that is not susceptible. Each food crop comes with its own set of pests that attack that particular crop. By planting a different crop each time, the farmer is able to starve out those pests.

Detailed explanation-2: -Crop rotation is a straightforward concept: It is the practice of not growing the same crops in the same location in consecutive years. Rotating crops this way helps avoid having pests and diseases build up in the soil by avoiding planting the same veggies in the same area every year.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rotating crops can have important production benefits such as increasing yields, improving nutrients and organic matter in the soil, and it can help disrupt the lifecycle of crop pests, reducing chemical use.

Detailed explanation-4: -Crop rotation Rotating crops can change-up the pest complex, as well as change the type and amount of crop residue that can harbor insect and disease pests, and allow for a wider array of active ingredients to be used in pest control.

Detailed explanation-5: -In agriculture, pests are kept at bay by mechanical, cultural, chemical and biological means. Ploughing and cultivation of the soil before sowing mitigate the pest burden, and crop rotation helps to reduce the build-up of a certain pest species.