| Abstract from DBPedia | In agriculture, monoculture is the practice of growing one crop species in a field at a time. Monoculture is widely used in intensive farming and in organic farming: both a 1,000-acre cornfield and a 10-hectare field of organic kale are monocultures. Monoculture crops have allowed farmers to increase efficiency in planting, managing, and harvesting, mainly by facilitating the use of machinery in these operations, but monocultures can also increase the risk of diseases or pest outbreaks. Diversity can be added both in time, as with a crop rotation or sequence, or in space, with a polyculture or intercropping (see table below). Continuous monoculture, or monocropping, where farmers raise the same species year after year, can lead to the quicker buildup and spread of pests and diseases in a susceptible crop. The term "oligoculture" has been used to describe a crop rotation of just a few crops, as practiced in several regions of the world. The concept of monoculture can also extend to (for example) discussions of variety in urban landscapes.モノカルチャ（英語: Monoculture）とは、直訳するとmono（単一）のculture（栽培/文化）であり、多くの事は農作物を生産する農業の形態を指す。そのような農業形態は単作（たんさく）とも呼ばれる。また、単一の産品や産業に依存した経済をモノカルチャー経済と言うことがある。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Monoculture) |
