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what are poly-culture & arboriculture ?


Arboriculture is the cultivation, management, and study of individual trees,shrubs,vines and other perennial ,woody plants. It is both a practice and a science.

The science of arboriculture studies how these plants grow and respond to cultural practices and to their environment. The practice of arboriculture includes cultural techniques such as selection, planting, training, fertilization, pest and pathogen control, pruning, shaping, and removal.

A person who practices or studies arboriculture can be termed an 'arborist', an 'arboriculturist' or a 'tree surgeon'.

Poly culture is agriculture using multiple crops in the same space, in imitation of the diversity of natural ecosystems, and avoiding large stands of single crops, or monoculture It includes crop rotation, multi-cropping, inter cropping, companion planting, beneficial weeds, and alley cropping.

Poly culture, though it often requires more labor, has several advantages over monoculture:


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