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'''Mixed cropping''' is growing of two or more crops simultaneously on the same piece of land. It is also known as multiple cropping. This type of cropping leads to an improvement in the fertility of the soil and hence, increases in crop yield because when the two crops are properly chosen t. The products and refuse from one crop plant help in the growth of the other crop plant and vice-versa. Mixed cropping is an insurance against crop failure due toin abnormal weather conditions.

By planting one line of one crop, then a line of another crop, both crops can get better. In one line a [[leguminous crope]] and in another line the crop which is to be planted. So, if onemain crop. So, if the main crop takes the nitrogen from the soil, the another leguminous croplegume fixes the crop.soil. The nitrogen is fixed in the root nodules of the leguminous plants in the form of nitrates (soluble form of nitrogen) . Hence, the fertility of the soil gets maintainedand keeps the soil fertile. This helps the farmers to produce more and more crops without the nitrogen being depleted from the soil.

Mixed cropping is not the same as [[crop rotation]]. In crop rotation you plant different [[crop]]s in the same field in different years. Some plants add [[nitrogen]] to the [[soil]], some take it out. If you would plant the same crop year after year, you wear out your soil.

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[[ne:मिश्रित खेती]]This allows in increase of the production thus acting a profit for the farmer and helps him increase his earnings.