Monoculture is either the same crop on a field every time, or the same crop is a very large area. A single crop in a field for one season only is crop rotation, something that is absolutely not monoculture.
And it is inherently something bad, that’s how the word is defined, if it’s not extensive enough to be harmful, it doesn’t get that name. It may be “not very bad” and normal, but it’s bad.
I believe there may be a language barrier at play here.
“In agriculture, monoculture is the practice of growing one crop species in a field at a time.”, says the English Wikipedia [1].
German Wikipedia [2], on the other hand, says
Als Monokultur […] werden […] Flächen bezeichnet, auf denen ausschließlich eine einzige Nutzpflanzenart über mehrere Jahre hintereinander angepflanzt wird […] Wenn auf einem Feld in einer Anbauperiode ausschließlich Nutzpflanzen einer Art angepflanzt werden, handelt es sich um eine Reinkultur, nicht um eine Monokultur.
Monoculture are fields on which a single crop is planted for multiple years at a time […] If a field contains a single type of crop in a single growing season, it is called a pure culture, not a monoculture.
Monoculture is either the same crop on a field every time,
Incorrect. Crop rotation is still monoculture. Dynamic cycling is still monoculture. It only stops being monoculture when you plant and grow more types of crops from the same field at the same time.
In practice, even polyculture fields will be strips the width of whatever harvesting machine will fit, or they’re tiny hand-planted fields.
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Monoculture is either the same crop on a field every time, or the same crop is a very large area. A single crop in a field for one season only is crop rotation, something that is absolutely not monoculture.
And it is inherently something bad, that’s how the word is defined, if it’s not extensive enough to be harmful, it doesn’t get that name. It may be “not very bad” and normal, but it’s bad.
I believe there may be a language barrier at play here.
“In agriculture, monoculture is the practice of growing one crop species in a field at a time.”, says the English Wikipedia [1].
German Wikipedia [2], on the other hand, says
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoculture
[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monokultur
Incorrect. Crop rotation is still monoculture. Dynamic cycling is still monoculture. It only stops being monoculture when you plant and grow more types of crops from the same field at the same time.
In practice, even polyculture fields will be strips the width of whatever harvesting machine will fit, or they’re tiny hand-planted fields.