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двухразовый посев

English translation: double cropping

02:43 Jan 10, 2013
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Science - Agriculture / crop planting
Russian term or phrase: двухразовый посев
In a Russian translation of a North Korean leader's complaints about their agricultural problems repeated references are made to ...одноразовым посевом нельзя решить одновременно решить кормовую и зерновую проблему; необходимо внедрять двухразовый посев.

Later he says, "...производство двухразовых посевов должно быть полностью механизировано, так как ручной труд требует больших затрат времени и поэтому двухразовый посев не принесет желательных результатов.

Is this twice-a-season or double-row sowing/planting, or am I missing what's going on entirely?
GaryG
Local time: 01:24
English translation:double cropping
Explanation:
Multiple cropping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_cropping
It can take the form of double-cropping, in which a second crop is planted after the first has been harvested, or relay cropping, in which the second crop is started ...
Double-crop - Merriam-Webster Online

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double-crop
to grow two or more crops on the same land in the same season or at the same time. transitive verb. : to grow (a crop) by double-cropping <double–crop
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Jack slep
Local time: 01:24
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Thanks for everyone's contributions. I hope I made the right choice, since this (among other subjects!) is out of my expertise. I also used "monocropping" for одноразовый посев
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3biannual sowing
Jack Doughty
5 +1double cropping
Jack slep
4double sowing /(pls see)
Michael Korovkin
4double sown crops
Vladyslav Golovaty


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biannual sowing


Explanation:
Pesq. agropec. bras. vol.36 issue2; Abstract: S0100 ... - SciELO
www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0100-204X2001000200007...
by PM Silveira - 2001 - Related articles
Common bean grain yield was higher when biannual sowing was done in the same area in rotation with rice/C. mucunoides and rice, and lower in rotation with ...

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
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double sowing /(pls see)


Explanation:
Sawing twice a year. To wit:

Judging from your context, you may discard "sowing in double rows".

The basic concept of double sawing is quite the opposite to the suggestion by Jack (and I'm sorry). It's not sawing biannually, but, quite the contrary, sawing twice in one year.

The cases in point may be two:
1. In warm countries with fertile lands (i.e. Italy) you may sow, and harvest, the same crop twice in a season, for the warm season is very long. However, I don't think it's the case of North Korea.

2. You may sow two different crops in one year. The most classical example is sowing a crop of summer wheat in the Spring and a crop of winter wheat in the Autumn (i.e.: www.permies.com › forums › growies › plants). And THAT, I think, is the exact meaning of your Korean context.

What Jack is writing about is not "двойной посев" but a "biennial two-crops rotation system" or "двухгодичный севооборот" where the second-year crop is usually some sort of legume - to enrich the soil with Nitrogen.
Incidentally, that doesn't require any additional labour/mechanization, whilst sowing two different crops a year does, as Kim W Yong implies in your context!

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Note added at 19 hrs (2013-01-10 22:15:13 GMT)
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Banned from discussion as I am, I must remark on an entry here: It's not at all absurd in ANY climate because winter crops exist exactly for that purpose. Take the Russian “озимые“ as one example.

Michael Korovkin
Italy
Local time: 07:24
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 4
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double cropping


Explanation:
Multiple cropping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_cropping
It can take the form of double-cropping, in which a second crop is planted after the first has been harvested, or relay cropping, in which the second crop is started ...
Double-crop - Merriam-Webster Online

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double-crop
to grow two or more crops on the same land in the same season or at the same time. transitive verb. : to grow (a crop) by double-cropping <double–crop

Jack slep
Local time: 01:24
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 64
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Thanks for everyone's contributions. I hope I made the right choice, since this (among other subjects!) is out of my expertise. I also used "monocropping" for одноразовый посев

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1 day 19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
double sown crops


Explanation:
It is ANNUAL DOUBLE CROPS SYSTEM (no word could be deleted)
Not to mix up with double row sowing e.g. “When double row sowing, the #2 pusher must start in the second row of the plug ...” http://www.blackmoreco.com/tech_tips_turbo.html
Not to substitute sowing with cropping which is correct, no doubt..:-)

Example sentence(s):
  • In land of EU Mediterranean environments, feeding forage is provided by cultivation of annual double sown crops. The most popular cropping system …

    Reference: http://paper.researchbib.com/?action=viewPaperDetails&paperi...
Vladyslav Golovaty
Ukraine
Local time: 08:24
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 16
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