Many systems of agriculture, both modern and traditional, rely heavily on monocultures to grow the majority of their food. Monocultures are easier to mechanize, and as a result huge areas of land in the developed world are set aside for monocultures of wheat, corn, barley and rice, with only a fraction of the people needed to attend them as were required pre-mechanization.
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Monoculture
is the practice of growing a single crop over a large area.