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Grow green manure and make earth healthy:

• Growing green manure increases the ability of handling the water and other essential elements of the land

• Green manure also reduces the bad effect of stagnant water

• Green manure provides nitrogen to crops

Harvesting of green manure:

• For green manure crops Dhaincha (jantar), sunhemp or cowpea crops are recommended by the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.

• Dhaincha (Jantar): Prepare the farm for sowing and then sow seeds @20kg/acre.

• Sunhemp: For Sunhemp sowing, sow seeds @20 kg/acre. Crop sowing should be done with the help of drill or with hands in rows which must be apart approximate 22.5 centimeters 

• Cowpea: For cowpea sowing, use Cowpea -88 @20 kg/acre and L-367 @12kg/acre of seeds.

• Apart from this, if in summer season green grams are harvested, then after harvesting crops are ploughed in the field which in turn works as green manure. By doing this, the third part of nitrogen fertilizer can be saved for paddy.