APES Rotation 13 Vocab -

Plantation agriculture

Cash crops

Monoculture

Desertification

Waterlogging

Conservation tillage

Terracing

Contour farming

Agroforestry

Strip cropping

Planting regular crops and close-growing plants, such as hay or nitrogen-fixing legumes, in alternating rows or bands to help reduce depletion of soil nutrients.

Shelterbelts

Organic fertilizer

Commercial inorganic fertilizer

Commercially prepared mixture of plant nutrients such as nitrates, phosphates, and potassium applied to the soil to restore fertility and increase crop yields.

Green manure

Compost

Crop rotation