They are plantations of great extension with trees or other types of plants of a single species, in this process the same methods are used for all plantations such as fertilization, pest control and high production. The most frequent plantations are: sugar cane, cereals, cotton and pine trees. This system of monoculture can achieve in a short time maximum agricultural production and are generally used where there is a shortage of manpower of the man.
It is said that this system is the typical example of the economy at scale, reaching low prices of the product that is harvested. Monoculture systems also present a series of disadvantages in the ecological and biodiversity fields since they cause the erosion of soil nutrients, eroding it, replacing natural forests, as well as the alteration of the hydrological cycle, the decrease in the production of Food and the deterioration of the landscape in tourist areas can cause diseases since there is no diversity in the crop and because of this the animals that previously lived in that place cannot feed themselves.
The opposite happens with insects, since they do get food in these monoculture sites, which can cause the spread of a large number of pests. Monocultures cause the loss of diversity in natural systems due to human manipulation in the destruction of species and due to pollution.
