Growing two or more crops in the same location at the same time in a beneficial manner is known as intercropping.
This configuration is called row intercropping because at least one of the components is planted in rows.
Strip intercropping is a more industrialized variant of intercropping that uses rows of individual crops that are large enough to be harvested by machines.
Plants are bunched together more naturally but purposefully in mixed intercropping, similar to what we perceive as a guild.
When plants are intercropped, they are timed to be planted between flowering and harvesting, which is known as relay intercropping.
Final answer:
Growing two or more crops in close proximity is known as intercropping.
Intercropping’s most common purpose is to increase production on a given piece of land by utilizing resources that would otherwise go unused by a single crop.
