agriculture, a green manure is a crop specifically cultivated to be incorporated into the soil while still green. Typically, the green manure's biomass is...
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manure consists of animal feces; other sources include compost and green manure. Manures contribute to the fertility of soil by adding organic matter and...
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Fibres Beverages Narcotics Spices Condiments Rubber Forage Green manure and green leaf manure Wheat and barley were generally the offerings - called Cerealia...
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consumption; for livestock forage and silage; and as soil-enhancing green manure. Well-known legumes include beans, chickpeas, peanuts, lentils, lupins...
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Crop rotation (section Green manure)
Green manure is a crop that is mixed into the soil. Both nitrogen-fixing legumes and nutrient scavengers, like grasses, can be used as green manure....
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Brassica juncea (redirect from Mustard green)
mustard as a green manure. Its main purpose is to act as a mulch, covering the soil to suppress weeds between crops. If grown as a green manure, the mustard...
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Tephrosia purpurea (section Feed and manure)
is a common wasteland weed. In many parts it is under cultivation as green manure crop. It is found throughout India and Sri Lanka in poor soils. Common...
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availability of synthetic fertilizer. For these reasons, it is often used as a green manure and cover crop. Besides making an excellent forage crop for livestock...
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bear 11–23 pairs of leaflets, each leaflet is 8–17 mm long with a pale green surface and whitish underneath. Its inflorescence is a cream-coloured puff...
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organic fertilizers include all animal waste including meat processing waste, manure, slurry, and guano; plus plant based fertilizers such as compost; and biosolids...
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once the cash crop is incorporated as a green manure or otherwise begins to decompose. An example of green manure use comes from Nigeria, where the cover...
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slurry pit to concentrate it. Liquid manure was developed in the 20th-century as an alternative to fermented manure. Manure in both forms is used as a nutrient-enriched...
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agricultural system that uses fertilizers of organic origin such as compost manure, green manure, and bone meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation...
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Mung bean (redirect from Green gram)
cover crop before or after cereal crops in rotation, which makes a good green manure. Mung beans are one of many species moved from the genus Phaseolus to...
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crop, a bee plant, an attractant for other beneficial insects, as a green manure and an ornamental plant. It is planted in vineyards and alongside crop...
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plant waste such as leaves or bush and tree trimmings, or animal manure. Green manure: plants or plant material that is grown for the sole purpose of being...
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such as spoons. The leaves of T. garckeana have many uses including green manure and mulch. The leaves also provide an often used fodder. List of Southern...
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saprophytes can be reached by removing dry straw from the field. Instead of green manure the plant residues can be used as fuel. Seed borne diseases can be reduced...
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it is used to make the condiment mustard, as a fodder crop, or as a green manure. It is now widespread worldwide, although it probably originated in the...
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now widely grown throughout the tropics and subtropics as a source of green manure, fodder and lignified fiber obtained from its stem. Sunn hemp is also...
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feed; the crop can also be grown as groundcover and ploughed in as a green manure. Phylogenetic analysis using molecular DNA and morphological evidence...
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alfalfa.[citation needed] Green manure Berseem clover can also be used as a cover crop suppressing weeds or as a green manure crop providing nitrogen to...
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system that relies on fertilizers of organic origin such as compost, manure, green manure, and bone meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation...
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in high latitude or northern areas. Buckwheat is sometimes used as a green manure, as a plant for erosion control or as wildlife cover and feed. In 2022...
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population densities in plots having Chinese mustard Brassica juncea green manure or seed meal in the soil. A number of intestinal nematodes cause diseases...
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around the world. It is used for grazing, hay, and silage, as well as a green manure and cover crop. The name alfalfa is used in North America. The name lucerne...
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Brazil, India, and Bangladesh The plant is grown as a ground cover and a green manure crop, especially in the inter-rows of rubber trees and coconut palms...
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extensively cultivated as a forage crop, an ornamental, a bee plant, and as green manure. G. officinalis is rich in galegine, a substance with blood glucose-lowering...
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crops grown in water, such as rice, or by removal from lakes for use as green manure. A. filiculoides is frequently cultivated in aquariums and ponds, where...
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with manure. Sowing green manure crops such as grazing rye to cover soil over the winter will help to prevent nitrogen leaching, while leguminous green manures...
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