In winter, however, and in fallows loss takes place in the subsoil water.
The rotation of crops is not adopted as a principle of cultivation; but in practice it is well known that a succession of exhausting crops cannot be taken in consecutive seasons from the same field, and the advantage of fallows is widely recognized.
No room was left for intermediate or temporary forms such as forest fallows.
Background The spatial distribution of rice fallows in South Asia was documented using a GIS approach.
The reduction in rotation of cereal crops with other land covers (including grass leys and fallows ).