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Question
What is green manuring ? Give suitable examples for green manures.
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Solution
Green manuring is a practice of ploughing and mixing of green crops in the soil for improving the physical structure as well as the fertility of the soil. Green manures are generally thick growing leguminous and non-leguminous plants.
Examples of green manures: Horse gram (Dolichos uniflorus), cowpea or lobia (Vigna sinensis), and lentil or masoor (Lens culinaris).
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