Crotalaria juncea in addition to the high biomass also has a high nitrogen content also (3.01% N). This plant is very soft and suitable for use as green manure utuk. In the past crops are always planted after harvesting is completed.
Actually the use of green manure is not new anymore, but because so many have been abandoned by farmers, the green manure has been abandoned. For example, in the seventies, is a must the tobacco plant in Klaten, plant Crotalaria juncea (snore-snore) on tobacco after each harvest, aiming to restore and improve soil fertility. Once harvested tobacco, planted snore-snore, after a big snore-snore then the plant was torn down and mixed with soil during land preparation (piracy) are then pooled. But in the present imperative is difficult to be fulfilled either by the factory owners and farmers. Farmers have objections if the fields planted with legumes (snore-snore), it is considered not productive, long-snore snore planting (about one month).
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