Question

How growing chickpea or moong bean can help in maintaining soil fertility what is this practices is called

Answer 1

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By growing chickpea or moong bean , it can help in maintaining the soil fertility as some nitrogen fixing bacteria called rhizobium are present in the root nodules of leguminous plants . These bacteria can fix the atmospheric nitrogen into nitrates. This process is known as biological nitrogen fixation.

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