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...

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Format: News Item
Language:Inglés
Published: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 1986
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44548
Description
Summary: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...