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  1. Book Key Resources - Cover Crops and Green Manure

     

  2. Selecting Legumes as Green Manure/Cover Crops

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    2017-05-26 By integrating legumes into cropping systems, small-scale farmers in low-resource settings can invest in the long-term health and resilience of their soils. Success or failure depends largely on choosing the right legume(s). With that in mind, this document presents insights on legume selection...
    Green Manures Green Manure Cover... Green Manures and ... Cover Crops Legume Legumes Tropical legumes Lablab Mucuna Intercropping
     

  3. Green Manure Cover Crops

    Most farmers know very well that in a forest many plants grow all the time, but the soil never wears out. The soil in a forest also never gets so hard that someone has to plow it. Even more amazing, the plants in a forest do not suffer from droughts. In other words, forest soils stay productive,...
    Green Manure Cover... Green Manure Crops Jackbean
     

  4. Green Manures and Cover Crops

    1996-10-19 The International Cover Crop Clearinghouse Enthusiasm for Cover Crops Green Manure Crops Offer Tremendous Advantages to the Small Farm in the Third World, by Roland Bunch What We Have Learned to Date About Green Manure Crops for Small Farmers, by Roland Bunch Innovations in Green Manures Jack...
     

  5. Overview of Cover Crops and Green Manures

    Crop rotations, green manures, and cover crops are the foundations of good farming. Crop rotation provides diversity that results in resilience, green manures cycle nutrients by feeding soil microbes, and cover crops protect the soil from erosion and nutrient loss. These practices ultimately...
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  6. Innovations in Green Manures

    1995-01-19 Information about green manure and cover crop legumes.
    Roland Bunch Legume Cover Crops Green Manures Velvet Bean
     

  7. Crotalaria juncea, a promising green manure crop for the tropics

    This article is from ECHO Asia Note #3 Crotalaria juncea, or sunn hemp, is a member of the pea family (Fabaceae) grown in many countries as a green manure or forage crop. Originating in South Asia, but with a common cultivar developed in Hawaii, it is a fastgrowing, drought-tolerant and...
    Nitrogen Fixation Green Manures and ... Green Manure Cover... Green Manures Cover Crops Legume Asia
     

  8. Rice Bean -Vigna umbellata: Another amazing green manure/cover crop

    2004-04-20 Rice bean (Vigna umbellata) is one of the top five most commonly grown green manure/cover crops in the world.
    Legume Cover Crops Green Manures Rice Bean
     

  9. Tithonia Weed -- A Potential Green Manure Crop

    1997-07-19 Scientists at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) in Kenya have recently determined that the weedy shrubTithonia diversifoliahas potential as a green manure crop.
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  10. Sustainable Agriculture Book - Chapter 13 Cover Cropping

    2005-01-20 Cover cropping is Fundamental #7. It is the technique of growing plants that protect the soil to conserve topsoil and moisture. It can be considered a living mulch. Under sowing legumes below existing crops and other companion plants will work well. You get all the advantages of mulching; soil...