monoculture

1a: cultivation or growth of single crops and organisms, especially in agriculture and forest areas

Plants form a thick monoculture that reduces the diversity of wetland plants and birds.

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The standard definition of single cultivation refers to crops with production capacity in several growing seasons. Trees, vineyards, trees, or plant crops with multiple production seasons occupy a certain area over a long period of time, so it is considered to be a single piece. An example of a monoculture is the French vineyards and Italian olive groves that have been used for continuous use and overwhelming change for centuries. Other crops such as sugar cane and pineapple have a relatively short range, but often invest heavily in the lack of infrastructure and viable substitutes, making crop exchanges difficult

The term monoculture is intended to represent a group dominated by a single species, such as social monoculturalism for other purposes, or to represent Western pop music in the field of music science, or American And is often used to describe the superiority of the British music industry. A domain represents a group of computers running the same software. Single cultivation can produce higher yields than multicultural cultivation when the crop matches its well-managed environment. In the past 40 years, modern practices such as the use of single planting and synthetic fertilizer have reduced the amount of additional land required for food production. However, planting the same crops in the same place every year will deplete the nutrients of the soil where plants grow, weaken the soil, and can not support the growth of healthy plants. Due to poor soil structure and quality, farmers are forced to use chemical fertilizer to promote plant growth and fruit production.

Single culture agriculture is highly dependent on the introduction of chemical substances such as synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Planting the same plants every year in the same place (nothing else) requires fertilizer as we have to quickly exhaust the nutrients on which the plant depends and supplement these nutrients in some way. Pesticides are necessary because a single cultivated land is very attractive to certain weeds and pests. The harvest of many industrial single crops is used to enrich livestock with CAFO which often supplements antibiotics and hormones to maximize weight to animal feed operations, ie high calorie cereal based meals It will be. Those wastes are concentrated and become environmental problems. It is not a convenient source of fertilizer. This can be used for more diverse and small farms.