"multicropping" meaning in English

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          "text": "1978 December, Samuel G. Unger, George W. Bailey, Environmental Implications of Trends in Agriculture and Silviculture, Volume 2: Environmental Effects of Trends, US Environmental Protection Agency, page 28,\nMulticropping practices will increase in some areas; however, it is doubtful if year-round cropping will occur throughout most of the U.S."
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          "ref": "1998, Brien A. Meilleur, Clones within Clones: Cosmology and Esthetics and Polynesian Crop Selection: Anthropologica, volume XL, number 1, page 76:",
          "text": "Other researchers have shown interest in multiple cultivar phenomena among indigenous and peasant peoples by studying the distribution and merits of polyculture and multicropping in the tropics.",
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          "text": "Farms with relatively abundant labor compared with their farm size are less likely to engage in multicropping.",
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        "The practice of growing two or more crops on the same piece of land during a single growing season."
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          "sense": "practice of planting more than one crop in the same place",
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        "Multiple cropping"
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