Agricultural Growth through Green Manure

Green manuring is an arable-farming practice in which un-decomposed green material is in-corporated into soil in order to increase its immediate productivity. Green ma¬nure crops can be leguminous as well as non-leguminous. The practice of ploughing or turning into soil under-composed green plant tissue for the purpose of improving physical condition as well as fertility of the soil is referred to as green manure and the manure obtained by this method is known as green manure. Green manuring is widely practiced in Karnataka, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, while it is practiced on a limited scale in other States. This paper is based on the secondary data sources and the main objectives of this paper is to know the characters of green manure crops, to discuss about various types of green manuring and to understand the benefits of green manure.