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Monoculture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Advantages of monoculture: ... [ Public and Media ] [ The Farm Labour Force ] [ Mechanisation and Technology ] [ Agricultural Support ] [ Monoculture ] ... There are two distinct definitions of monoculture:
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Monoculture describes systems that have very low diversity. In agriculture, "monoculture" describes the practice of relying on a very small number of genetic variants, or cultivars of a food crop for commercial ... ... For more information about the topic Monoculture, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the...
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Food production of modern human societies is mostly based on large-scale monoculture crops, but it now appears that advanced insect societies have the same practice. Our societies took just ten thousand years of (mainly cultural) evolution to adopt this habit and we are far from convinced that it is sustainable. ... > read more...
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Monoculture (computer science) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the field of computer science, monoculture is a term used to describe a community of computers, all running identical software. All the computer systems in the community have the same vulnerabili...
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A rant against excessive uniformity in networking software used by the public and consequent vulnerability to security exploits. ... In agriculture and the biological sciences, monoculture refers to the situation where one type of plant or animal completely dominates an ecosystem, crowding out all other varieties.
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however, they are also more vulnerable to disease and pest problems. Monoculture reduces ecosystem diversity, and so more soil and pest problems result, which in turn causes farmers to apply more chemical fertilizers and pesticides to their land. These practices ultimately pollute the land, the water,
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Monoculture involves the culture of a single species with or without the addition of fertilizers or feeds. Only a few applications of organic fertilizers without appropriate instructions have been conducted by the farmers in central and northeast Thailand to increase fish production.
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