Technology: Intercropping set for key role in future of farming

In an intercropping system, useful animals can seek refuge in the plants of the other crop while one crop is being harvested, and can then migrate into strips with green manure.

Intercropping will be an important part of the sustainable agriculture of the future.

Already, it is known that, under favourable conditions, a smart combination of crops such as six rows of wheat alternating with two rows of maize provides higher yields, requiring less use of artificial fertilisers and pesticides than the same crops in monoculture.