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Growing two or more crops at the same time in a field is called

A

mixed cropping

B

mixed farming

C

intercropping

D

crop rotation.

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A
Mixed cropping is growing of two or more different crops together in the same field. The different crops to be grown together are so chosen that they do not have common pests and pathogens or similar requirement of water and nutrients. For example, groundnut and sunflower/gram.
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