FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In agriculture, polyculture is the practice of growing more than one crop species in the same space, at the same time. In doing this, polyculture attempts to mimic the diversity of natural ecosystems. Polyculture is the opposite of monoculture, in which only one plant or animal species is cultivated together.

Detailed explanation-2: -: the usually simultaneous cultivation or growth of two or more compatible plants or organisms and especially crops or fish in a single area. also : a product of such cultivation or growth.

Detailed explanation-3: -Polyculture is the planting of two or more crops in the same field at the same time. Often the terms polyculture and intercropping are used interchangeably.

Detailed explanation-4: -Permaculture, perennial polycultures, and agroforestry.

Detailed explanation-5: -Such systems involve growing two or more crops on the same field in a year. Sequential cropping (growing one crop after another in the same year) and intercropping are types of multiple cropping and include numerous different systems.