Managing Polycropping to Enhance Soil System Productivity: A Case Study from Africa

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Polycropping is the concurrent use of multiple crops that are beneficial to each other, with

the output of each crop becoming the input of another, creating a balance in the soil and

environment (Geno and Geno, 2001). Although Geno (1976) considered polycropping as

a term referring to mixed farming, Kass (1978) proposed it as the best term to distinguish

all multiple-cropping situations from single cropping, i.e., monoculture, denoting an area

that is being used for more than one crop at a time.