Why is Crop Rotation Important for Soil Health?
Crop rotation is vital to maintaining soil health and fertility in agriculture. If you keep growing only one type of crop on the soil, it's sure to degrade over time. So you need to plant different crops in a particular field in a planned sequence over the span of several seasons. Crop rotation eventually benefits soil in many ways. In this blog, we'll go through how it benefits the soil. Let's get to it right away without any further ado. Prevents Soil Erosion When you plant a variety of crops on the soil, it can help you prevent soil erosion by reducing the impact of wind and rain. This also helps in water conservation in the soil. Soil erosion is one of the primary factors of losing soil fertility. So it's beneficial to do everything in your control to prevent the soil from being eroded. Controls Diseases Planting different crops helps prevent soil erosion and control pests and diseases. Planting the same crop repeatedly in the same field leads to an accumulati...