Space

Farm robots guided by GPS can plant and harvest multiple crops in close proximity, enabling beneficial interactions between species and potentially boosting biodiversity. Strip cropping — partitioning fields into narrow bands containing different crops — is a common practice. Now, robotic technology is making it possible to space crops closer together than ever before. Kit Franklin at Harper Adams University, UK, says you can think of it as taking a diverse planting approach for an allotment and scaling it up with machinery.
–New Scientist