Repeated cultivation of the same crop like paddy results in a huge food reserve to a given pest, which encourages a rapid growth of the pest population. Any change in the crop would create a deficit in its food supply which results in a considerable mortality. Sometime a given pest population may be wiped out to create a generation gap. Thus crop rotation plays an important role in pest management.
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