Azolla: green fertilizer

This small and extremely fast-growing aquatic plant can, like leguminous plants, fix atmospheric nitrogen. In Asia, it is used as a green fertilizer in rice fields (where it is introduced before the transplanting of rice) and as a feed for poultry...

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Autor principal: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Formato: News Item
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 1986
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44548
Descripción
Sumario:This small and extremely fast-growing aquatic plant can, like leguminous plants, fix atmospheric nitrogen. In Asia, it is used as a green fertilizer in rice fields (where it is introduced before the transplanting of rice) and as a feed for poultry...