Polyculture is an agricultural practice that involves the cultivation of multiple crops in the same space. This sustainable approach to agriculture is based on the idea that growing a variety of crops together can increase yields, reduce pest and disease pressure, and improve soil fertility. Polyculture
In agriculture, polyculture is the practice of growing more than one crop species together in the same place at the same time, in contrast to monoculture, which had become the dominant approach in developed countries by 1950. Traditional examples include the intercropping of the Three Sisters, namely maize, beans, and squashes, by indigenous peoples of Central and North America, the rice-fish systems of Asia, and the complex mixed cropping systems of Nigeria.