HORTICULTURE

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: -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-3: -Polyculture, technique of growing at least two compatible aquatic species together in a single pond or lake, has the objective of increasing production using organisms with different feeding habits or spatial distribution (Zimmermann et al., 2009).