Crops are changed year by year in a planned sequence. Crop rotation is a common practice on sloping soils because of its potential for soil saving. Rotation also reduces fertilizer needs, because alfalfa and other legumes replace some of the nitrogen corn and other grain crops remove.

Various Crop rotations:

• Pearl millet and Groundnut
• Gingelly and groundnut
• Groundnut and pulses
• Groundnut and ragi
• Groundnut and gingelly
• Maize and groundnut
• Groundnut and coriander
• Maize and pulses - pulses
• Horse gram/ pearl millet/ pulses/ ragi/ minor millet

Advantages of crop rotation :

• Prevents soil depletion.
• Maintains soil fertility.
• Reduces soil erosion.
• Help control weeds.
• Reduces reliance on synthetic chemicals.
• Reduces pest and diseases build up.

Potential cropping system based on rainfall and soil characteristics