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title: "Crop Rotation: Definition, Types & UPSC Notes"
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

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- Crop rotation is the practice of cultivating different crops in a planned sequence on the same field across successive seasons to sustain soil fertility and manage pests.
- How does crop rotation restore soil nitrogen?
- How is crop rotation different from mixed cropping and intercropping?
- Why is the rice–wheat cropping system criticised despite being a rotation?
- What policy obstacles discourage farmers from diversifying their rotations?

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Crop rotation is the practice of cultivating different crops in a planned sequence on the same field across successive seasons to sustain soil fertility and manage pests.

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