Question

how how how is growing of luminous crop in the field between to the farmer

Answer 1

At a time when decreasing soil fertility especially due to indiscriminate use of chemical fertilisers and prolonged cultivation of commercial crops has become a cause for concern among farmers, legume vegetables have turned out to be a boon for addressing this issue.

Scientists feel that growing the legume vegetables at least once in a season will help in increasing soil fertility as they have the capacity to fix atmospheric nitrogen through their root nodules. This reduces the use of chemical fertilisers like urea and ammonium nitrate.

Of course, growing legume crops for the natural fixation of atmospheric nitrogen was an age-old practice of traditional farmers.

But the process has now been discontinued mostly by those growing commercial crops due to lack of awareness.

Dr. T. S. Aghora, principal scientist at the Indian Institute of Horticultural Research located at Hessarghatta near Bengaluru who has been working on legume vegetables, says various studies have shown that growing legume vegetables can increase soil fertility that will in turn increase the yield of regular crops by a range of 10 to 15 per cent.