the practice of producing a single crop on a given piece of land, including crop rotation

Monoculture, the practice of producing a single crop on a given piece of land, including crop rotation, produces optimum yields, but has implications for the biodiversity of farms.

a term used in agriculture to describe the planting of a single crop in a field

Monoculture is a term used in agriculture to describe the planting of a single crop in a field.

a method of growing only one crop at a time in a given field, which can damage land and cause land to become either unusable or suffer from reduced yields

Monoculture is a method of growing only one crop at a time in a given field, which can damage land and cause land to become either unusable or suffer from reduced yields.

a practice of growing one type of crop intensively over a large area

Monoculture is the practice of growing one type of crop intensively over a large area, thus depleting nutrients in the soil and making the soil heavily dependent on synthetic fertilizers.

the practice of growing one crop species in a field at a time

In agriculture, monoculture is the practice of growing one crop species in a field at a time.

the growing of just one type of crop on a massive scale — a growing method that is contrary to nature

Monoculture is the growing of just one type of crop on a massive scale — a growing method that is contrary to nature.