The simultaneous cultivation or exploitation of several crops or kinds of animals.
（多种庄稼或动物的）同时培育，同时利用
rich pockets of polyculture
count nouncrop polycultures of legumes grown with corn give about half again the value compared to corn alone
Example sentencesExamples
Corn was planted at 53,000 plants per ha in both monoculture and polyculture.
The crops grown in polyculture do not compete directly with each other for resources.
It is now perfectly possible to make a viable living from vines in Chablis, whereas in the 1950s growers needed both eternal optimism and another crop, so that polyculture was common.
However, the seeds of this change were sown much earlier, in the transition from peasant polyculture to specialized small farming.
We have here a lesson not only in secure decentralization, but the security of polyculture, superior to the insecurity of monoculture.
Definition of polyculture in US English:
polyculture
nounˈpälēkəlCHər
The simultaneous cultivation or exploitation of several crops or kinds of animals.
（多种庄稼或动物的）同时培育，同时利用
rich pockets of polyculture
count nouncrop polycultures of legumes grown with corn give about half again the value compared to corn alone
Example sentencesExamples
The crops grown in polyculture do not compete directly with each other for resources.
It is now perfectly possible to make a viable living from vines in Chablis, whereas in the 1950s growers needed both eternal optimism and another crop, so that polyculture was common.
However, the seeds of this change were sown much earlier, in the transition from peasant polyculture to specialized small farming.
We have here a lesson not only in secure decentralization, but the security of polyculture, superior to the insecurity of monoculture.
Corn was planted at 53,000 plants per ha in both monoculture and polyculture.