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Green Manuring: A Boon for Farmers

INTRODUCTION manuring can play an important role in this regard
as it showed versatile impacts like improvement
One of the major challenges in the present of soil physico- chemical and biological properties
agriculture scenario is the production of quality and fertility, nutrient supply to succeeding crops,
food-grains in sufficient quantity for the burgeoning checking erosion and plant protection. Green
population of the country without damaging the manuring improves soil structure, increases
soil quality, fertility and productivity. The use water holding capacity and decreases soil loss
of agrochemicals to enhance the agriculture by erosion. Growing of green manure crops in the
production and to manage the agricultural pests off season reduces weed proliferation and weed
is a common practice throughout the world. Now- growth. Green manuring helps in reclamation
a-days many farmers use these agrochemicals of alkaline soils. Studies have proven that root
and pesticides in non-judicious manner leading knot nematodes can also be controlled by green
to the loss of soil fertility and productivity which manuring. Thus, green manuring can be used as
leads to negative impact on human health. The a holistic remedial approach towards agriculture.
use of green manuring is the beacon of hope
in today's agricultural context (Gill et al., 2020).
Green manuring is the practice of enriching
the soil by incorporating undecomposed plant
materials (except crop residues), either in situ or
brought in from a distance (Pandey, 2013).
Restoration of soil fertility of arable land is a
great challenge in the developing and populous
countries like India. The country witnessed
the benefits Green Revolution Technologies
(GRTS) in boosting of grain yield and the after
effect of GRTS during past few decades in
terms of deterioration of soil fertility and land
degradation, loss of soil flora and fauna, genetic
erosion, ecological imbalance, yield plateauing
and associated insecurity in livelihood of the
farmers. Now maintenance of soil fertility and
sustainability of agriculture production are of
important concerns (Maitra, et al., 2018). Green