ABSTRACT
Crop rotation has been defined as ‘The practice of alternating the species or families of annual and/or biennial crops grown on a specific field in a planned pattern or sequence so as to break weed, pest and disease cycles and to maintain or improve soil fertility and organic matter content’ (IFOAM, 2014). As this suggests, crop rotations are defined in terms of a number of crops organized in a specific order over a defined period of time, with specific spatial arrangements and distribution in a field and landscape that ensures the best growing conditions for all crops. Crop rotation is thus a way to use the performance of a single crop in a way that contributes to the whole farming system (Ball et al., 2005; Watson et al., 1999).
