Rotation of Crops

Company Agritech Cluster UK
Country United Kingdom
Use of AI Soil Management for Sustainability
Type of Solution Rotation of Crops
Type of Crop Leguminous crops
Description Diversity of herbal leys allow soil to preserve its nutrients, minerality and drainage within its strata in order to assure the health of the soil and the promise of high-yielding crops. Herbal leys of diverse mixes of high biomass crops; legumes, herbs and grasses that present different root structures to utilise the soil across all strata: some of them dig their roots deeper in the soil, other are capable of developing roots on the soil surface, which allows a soil management that is sustainable, will retain the rain water and distribute its irrigation evenly, and prevent erosion of soil nutrients.