Fallow Crops
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Fallow Crops
plants sown in the fallow field of a crop rotation. The crops occupy the field during the first half of the summer. Fallow crops include mixtures of vetch or peas with oats, clover, sainfoin, potatoes, corn (early varieties), lupine, serradella, and other herbaceous plants used as green manure. After the crops are harvested, the soil is tilled.
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