About Lesson
Best quality of a green manuring crops
- Be able to grow well quickly under local conditions especially at initial stage to suppress the growth of weeds.
- Be able to yield more leafy and succulent materials than woody or fibrous ones so that the decomposition will be fast.
- Be leguminous as far as possible and be able to produce high amount of biomass with high N content so that N mineralized will be rapid and consequently there will be no N starvation of the succeeding crop.
- Have deep and fibrous root system to penetrate lower horizons and to extract nutrients to bring the surface for the use of the succeeding crops.
