Crop Rotation: A Sustainable Practice for the Management of Diseases

Abstract

The management and environmental impacts influence agricultural production, diseases, in turn, can interfere and cause damage to the crop at different times and parts of the plant, due to economic loss, it is necessary to use disease control methods. To maintain sustainable agricultural production, disease management is necessary. Many methods are adopted in agriculture during its development, and led to the implementation of various production systems, including the no-till system, which helped boost production. However, no-tillage was found to have several soil conservation problems, making it necessary to adopt another practice in this system, which is crop rotation, which emerged as a sustainable means of soil conservation, bringing several benefits. Crop rotation is the planned and orderly alternation of different crops in a given period of time and in the same area, making the development and survival of pests and pathogens that affect crops difficult. Along with sustainable disease management using biological control and methods plant-based, allowed for better disease management in agriculture and provided a more sustainable production environment. Crop rotation is important in disease control because it can be a preventive practice to provide diversity to the system through breakage cycles. The control of these diseases can be done through the biological control of pests and plant extracts.