single-crop
Just one plant
Single-crop describes agricultural practices devoted to growing only one type of plant, typically across a large area and often season after season.
A single-crop farm or single-crop agriculture lacks the diversity that can protect against pest outbreaks, soil depletion, and market fluctuations.
The region's single-crop economy collapsed when cotton prices fell.
The term carries implicit criticism, suggesting vulnerability that comes from putting all eggs in one basket.
Single-crop agricultural system
- rotationTurning on an axis
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- harvestGathering mature crops
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
cultivation · farming · field · acreage · subsistence · commodity · season · annual
Openness to harm
- dependencyState of needing support
- failureLack of success
- blightPlant disease causing decay
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
pest · disease · market collapse · food insecurity · famine · overreliance · instability · shortage
Fungible traded good
- exportForeign-bound sale
- tradeExchange of commodities
- marketVenue for trade
- priceMonetary value assigned
subsistence · colonial · plantation · cotton belt · sugar cane · tobacco · rubber · cocoa
monoculture
Single-crop agricultural system
planting · cultivation · farming · field · acreage · subsistence · commodity · season · annual · fallow
vulnerability
Openness to harm
- dependencyState of needing support
- failureLack of success
- blightPlant disease causing decay
drought · pest · disease · market collapse · food insecurity · famine · overreliance · instability · shortage · soil depletion
commodity
Fungible traded good
price · subsistence · colonial · plantation · cotton belt · sugar cane · tobacco · rubber · cocoa · tea estate
single-cropdiversified
Made more varied
polyculture · mixed farming · intercropping · multiculture · diverse
single-cropsustainable agriculture
Farming preserving long-term productivity
single, crop, singly, singles, singled, singling, singleton, crops, cropped