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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The growing of a cultivated crop, such as cotton, and a sod-forming crop, such as alfalfa, in alternating strips following the contour of the land, in order to minimize erosion.
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The effects of strip-cropping haricot bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) with maize (Zea mays L.) under weedy and weed-free conditions on the abundance of tachinid parasitoids and a predatory wasp that are associated with African bollworm were studied at Awassa, southern
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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The integration of Opuntia into existing cultivated areas can be done in strips (strip-cropping).
biopact 2008
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