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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I believe there may be a language barrier at play here.

“In agriculture, monoculture is the practice of growing one crop species in a field at a time.”, says the English Wikipedia [1].

German Wikipedia [2], on the other hand, says

Als Monokultur […] werden […] Flächen bezeichnet, auf denen ausschließlich eine einzige Nutzpflanzenart über mehrere Jahre hintereinander angepflanzt wird […] Wenn auf einem Feld in einer Anbauperiode ausschließlich Nutzpflanzen einer Art angepflanzt werden, handelt es sich um eine Reinkultur, nicht um eine Monokultur.

Monoculture are fields on which a single crop is planted for multiple years at a time […] If a field contains a single type of crop in a single growing season, it is called a pure culture, not a monoculture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoculture
[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monokultur