> A farmer with, say, 3 acres of land usually grows only 2-3 crops at a time. With Farmizen, the company claims, he can grow up to 20 crops using natural method

> A farmer with, say, 3 acres of land usually grows only 2-3 crops at a time. With Farmizen, the company claims, he can grow up to 20 crops using natural methods. This also improves the quality of the soil. Multiple crops also help from the risk management perspective. If there are 30 crops growing on a farm and three fail, the rest compensate for the loss. While heterogeneous plantings can reduce herbivore pressure, I feel like this could result in higher soil pest load by removing the opportunity for crop rotation. For instance, with some crops it's important to not plant them in any given area for more than a couple years in a row, otherwise the infectious nematode population (or whatever) builds up in the soil. Intercropping with a solid field of brassicas can help break up the pest population cycles. But maybe this would work if they keep rotatating where the Farmizen plots are. In any case, an interesting twist on Community Supported Agriculture.