Organic material left on an agricultural field to be used as a mulch or soil amendment
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Green manure plants
A field of clover, a green manure crop
In agriculture, a green manure is a crop specifically cultivated to be incorporated into the soil while still green.[1] Typically, the green manure's biomass is incorporated with a plow or disk, as is often done with (brown) manure. The primary goal is to add organic matter to the soil for its benefits. Green manuring is often used with legume crops to add nitrogen to the soil for following crops, especially in organic farming, but is also used in conventional farming.[2]
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agriculture, a greenmanure is a crop specifically cultivated to be incorporated into the soil while still green. Typically, the greenmanure's biomass is...
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mustard as a greenmanure. Its main purpose is to act as a mulch, covering the soil to suppress weeds between crops. If grown as a greenmanure, the mustard...
consumption; for livestock forage and silage; and as soil-enhancing greenmanure. Well-known legumes include beans, soybeans, chickpeas, peanuts, lentils...
availability of synthetic fertilizer. For these reasons, it is often used as a greenmanure and cover crop. Besides making an excellent forage crop for livestock...
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...
organic fertilizers include all animal waste including meat processing waste, manure, slurry, and guano; plus plant based fertilizers such as compost; and biosolids...
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...
once the cash crop is incorporated as a greenmanure or otherwise begins to decompose. An example of greenmanure use comes from Nigeria, where the cover...
is a common wasteland weed. In many parts it is under cultivation as greenmanure crop. It is found throughout India and Sri Lanka in poor soils. Common...
such as spoons. The leaves of T. garckeana have many uses including greenmanure and mulch. The leaves also provide an often used fodder. List of Southern...
saprophytes can be reached by removing dry straw from the field. Instead of greenmanure the plant residues can be used as fuel. Seed borne diseases can be reduced...
feed; the crop can also be grown as groundcover and ploughed in as a greenmanure. Phylogenetic analysis using molecular DNA and morphological evidence...
agricultural system that uses fertilizers of organic origin such as compost manure, greenmanure, and bone meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation...
it is used to make the condiment mustard, as a fodder crop, or as a greenmanure. It is now widespread worldwide, although it probably originated in the...
plant waste such as leaves or bush and tree trimmings, or animal manure. Greenmanure: plants or plant material that is grown for the sole purpose of being...
other legumes. In these agricultural zones common vetch is grown as a greenmanure, livestock fodder or rotation crop. In cultivated grainfields, like lentils...
with manure. Sowing greenmanure crops such as grazing rye to cover soil over the winter will help to prevent nitrogen leaching, while leguminous green manures...
cover crop before or after cereal crops in rotation, which makes a good greenmanure. Mung beans are one of many species moved from the genus Phaseolus to...
crop, a bee plant, an attractant for other beneficial insects, as a greenmanure and an ornamental plant. It is planted in vineyards and alongside crop...
around the world. It is used for grazing, hay, and silage, as well as a greenmanure and cover crop. The name alfalfa is used in North America. The name lucerne...
alfalfa.[citation needed] Greenmanure Berseem clover can also be used as a cover crop suppressing weeds or as a greenmanure crop providing nitrogen to...
in diameter) Bangladeshi mustard plants Black mustard Brown mustard Greenmanure List of mustard brands Zohary, Daniel; Hopf, Maria; Weiss, Ehud (2012)...
forage and greenmanure. The vetches also have a broad variety of other purposes. The Hairy Vetch has well-established uses as a greenmanure and as an...
which increases soil fertility. For these reasons, it is used as a greenmanure crop. Several cultivar groups have been selected for agricultural use...
extensively cultivated as a forage crop, an ornamental, a bee plant, and as greenmanure. G. officinalis is rich in galegine, a substance with blood glucose-lowering...
now widely grown throughout the tropics and subtropics as a source of greenmanure, fodder and lignified fiber obtained from its stem. Sunn hemp is also...
It is a legume, grown as a forage crop, fodder crop, cover crop, and greenmanure. Although non-native, it occurs in all US states and is considered invasive...
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