Companion planting
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Companion planting is the polycultural practice in horticulture and small-scale agriculture of co-planting different crops to provide a measure of weed suppression, pest control, and pollination; to a
Companion planting of carrots and onions. The onion smell puts off carrot root fly, while the smell of carrots puts off onion fly.
Root nodules of legumes fix nitrogen, assisting the growth of nearby plants.
Companion planting of cornflowers among cabbages helps the parasitoid wasp Microplitis mediator (shown) to control cabbage moth.
Spearmint attracts the mirid bug Nesidiocoris tenuis, an active predator that helps to suppress crop pests.
Agroforestry
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Agroforestry is a land use management system that integrates trees with crops or pasture. It combines agricultural and forestry technologies. As a polyculture system, an agroforestry system can produc
Companion planting
…both industrialized and developing countries for many reasons. Many of the modern principles of companion planting were present many centuries ago in forest gardens in Asia, and thousands of years ago in Mesoamerica. The technique may allow farmers to reduce costly inputs of artificial fertilisers and pesticides…
Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso
Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla
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A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched sunflower plants