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In our Agriculture for Everybody  blog series, we are going to see how to choose the Right Combination of Crops. We will extend the previous blog namely, "Choosing the Right Combination of Crops - Single Harvest & Multiple Harvest Crops" in this blog and understand the difference between them.  The farmers can use this as one more filter (criteria) to choose the right combination of crops. What do I mean by Single (Season) Harvest & Multiple (Season) Harvest Crops? Any crop that provides harvest only for one season is considered Single (Season) Harvest Crop. For eg: Mango A classical example is the Mango Crop which comes to harvest during the summer season and the season may be close to 3 months in time. Please note that we can slightly extend the time period of the Single Season Harvest by choosing the right combination of varieties (where possible).  We have already covered this in our previous blogs. Any crop that provides harvest for more than o...

In our Agriculture for Everybody  blog series, we will explore "Choosing the Right Combination of Crops".  The farmers can use this as a filter to choose the right combination of crops.  The filter in this blog is "Single Harvest & Multiple Harvest Crops". What do I mean by Single Harvest & Multiple Harvest Crops? Any crop that provides harvest only for one time is considered Single Harvest Crop. For example, Paddy, Sugarcane, Banana, Teak, Groundnut etc Multiple Harvest Crops are those crops that provide multiple harvests and not just once. For example, Tomato, Coconut, Mango, Guava, Flowering Trees etc Is it necessity to go for only Single Harvest or Multiple Harvest Crops?  Does one exclude the other? Simply putting it, both are necessary. In a Single Harvest Crop, you may need to repeat the same activities (from sowing to harvesting) every time. In a Multiple Harvest Crop, the activities will almost be similar to Single Harvest Crop in the ...