1953 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 59 125/2 The so-called ‘subsidiary’ activities in these communities..have developed, under these conditions of [sugar cane] monocrop, seasonal agriculture.

1974 Canad. Mag. 9 Nov. 2/2 Monocrop culture..means concentrating on a single kind of fruit or vegetable.

1986 Ann. Reg. 1985 278 Efforts to diversify the vulnerable and largely monocrop economy raised problems for the agricultural sector.

1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Apr. 403/1 The predominance of sugar in the Cuban economy is greater than it has ever been... The consequence of the Revolution has been to strengthen the hold of this monocrop.

1990 Amateur Gardening 7 Apr. 2/1 Much of the vegetables we eat today are grown as monocrops by farmers.

1970 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 23 May 44/1 Castro..goes into a ten-million-ton sugar crop, monocropping Cuba.

1980 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 17 607 Robinson..found higher numbers of pea aphids on peas interplanted with oats than when monocropped.

1997 Guardian 8 Jan. (Society section) 4/5 The supermarkets' imposition of intensive, large-scale systems, monocropping a limited number of vegetable varieties, makes agrochemical use inevitable.

1983 Inc. Aug. 11/1 By monocropping and eliminating livestock from their operations, farmers have become more specialized.

1987 Ecologist Mar. 87/2 The bush fallow of 1 year after 2 years monocropping with the ground-nuts followed by millet proved an insufficient resting period to prevent the soil from hardening.

1974 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 3 36 The Western temperate model of a mono-cropped field..was the unquestioned standard of agricultural practice.

1993 Econ. Jrnl. 103 479 The sustainability of monocropped maize in the semi-arid lands has also been questioned.