☘️🌾Why I Prefer Mixed Cropping: A Smarter Way to Use Every Inch of My Farm
Have you ever looked at your farm and wondered if you are making the most of the land?
If you've been struggling to make the most of your land, mixed cropping might be the solution, and in this post, we'll explain how it can work wonders, especially for small-scale farmers like us.
📏 2. How Mixed Cropping Helps Maximize Land
On small plots, every inch matters. Instead of planting just one crop and leaving rows in between, mixed cropping fills those gaps with useful plants.
🌿 3. Soil and Nutrient Benefits of Crop Mixing
When you mix two different crops as in the case of groundnut and maize then there is a high chance that the two crops will benefit a lot from each other in terms of nutrients, groundnut has a way of trapping nutrients like the environmental nitrogen and bringing the nutrients into the soil at high amounts, now that nutrient will be very important to the maize crop beside it.
🐛 4. Pest and Weed Control through Crop Diversity
Different pests and weeds are attracted to certain kinds of plants, especially pests, but when you practice mixed cropping, it becomes difficult for the pests to focus on one crop at a time.
💰 5. Better Yield and Profit from the Same Plot
You are making twice the yield you should have made from a plot, that's twice as much as you would have thought.
Final thoughts 🧠
Take advantage of mixed cropping on that land and shift your yield to a whole new level.