In agriculture, monoculture is the practice of growing one crop species in a field at a time. Monoculture is widely used in intensive farming and in organic farming: both a 1,000-acre cornfield and a 1-hectare field of organic kale are monocultures.

What do we mean by monoculture?

1a : the cultivation or growth of a single crop or organism especially on agricultural or forest land. b : a crop or a population of a single kind of organism grown on land in monoculture.

What is monoculture and why is it bad?

Soil Degradation And Fertility Loss

Agricultural monoculture upsets the natural balance of soils. Too many of the same plant species in one field area rob the soil of its nutrients, resulting in decreasing varieties of bacteria and microorganisms that are needed to maintain fertility of the soil.