https://www.britannica.com/topic/monoculture Monoculture , in agriculture , the practice of growing a single crop on a given acreage. While monoculture crops are sometimes rotated year to year, continuous monoculture, or mono-cropping, in which the same crop is grown year after year, has become one of the dominant paradigms in modern industrial agriculture. Prior to the so-called Green Revolution , continuous monoculture was not generally successful, as most nonlegume crops exhaust the nitrogen in the soil , resulting in a reduction in yields over time, particularly in humid regions. The advent of low-cost nitrogen fertilizers , however, induced a reconsideration of the possible advantages of monoculture. Although the practice is largely contrary to the principles of ecology , farmers throughout the world now grow the major food , fiber, and forage crops in a monoculture. Indeed, many modern crop species...
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