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Preparation for sustainable agriculture seeks to use nature as the model for designing agricultural systems that maintains diversity. Multiple cropping offers to farmers the opportunity to engage nature’s principle of diversity at their farms.
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Ofori, E., Kyei-Baffour, N., Stigter, K. (2010). The Selection of Actual Preparedness Strategies for Dealing with Climate as Adopted in Multiple Cropping. In: Stigter, K. (eds) Applied Agrometeorology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74698-0_29
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