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means Growing different crops in planned sequence on the same land across seasons, so soil nutrients and pest cycles get managed instead of depleted or exploited.

from 'Crop' traces back to Old English 'cropp,' meaning the top or head of a plant, later extended to the yield of a harvest. 'Rotation' comes from Latin 'rotare,' to turn like a wheel. The practice itself is ancient — farmers in antiquity already alternated or fallowed fields by instinct and necessity — but it was systematized in places like 18th-century Europe, where the famous four-field rotation (wheat, turnips, barley, clover) became a celebrated breakthrough, boosting yields by letting legumes quietly refill the soil's nitrogen while other crops spent it down.