The experiment consisted of a typical high-yield cropping system, with a 150 cm wide strip of both wheat and maize in the intercropping system. For green manure treatment, hairy vetch was sown ...

What is a green manure? What are the advantages of using a green manure? How to make a green manure fertiliser? I answer ...

Long before the advent of synthetic plant foods, farmers had only two ways to make their fields more fertile. One method was to spread manure from livestock, which proved a labor-intensive method that ...

If you're new to gardening, the term "green manure" might conjure up unpleasant images. Though it sounds like a strange animal byproduct or perhaps the newest eco-friendly soil additive, green manure ...

Green manures, or cover crops, offer a fantastic way to boost the health of your soil, and not enough gardeners take advantage. They improve the structure, enhance the nutrient levels, and also ...

Fig.1 Structural equation model between soil water content (SWC), soil temperature (ST), root length (RL), canopy cover (CC), leaf stay-greenness (SG), chlorophyll content (SPAD), photosynthetic rate ...

Let's take a moment to talk about green manure ... Stop! Come back! It's not what you think. For one, it has nothing to do with sick cows. Rather, green manure is simply a cover crop that is tilled ...

A T.N. State Planning Commission study identifies seed availability and timing as barriers to adopting green manuring in agriculture.