Question

State one advantage of growing a leguminous crop between two cereal crops.

Answer 1

Practice in which different types of crops like leguminous crops and non leguminous crops are grown alternately in the same field is called as Crop rotation.

Advantages of Crop Rotation:

1. Improves the fertility of soil by replenishing it with nitrogen .

2. Increases the production of food grains.

3. Saves lots of nitrogen fertilizers as leguminous plants can fix atmospheric nitrogen with the help of bacteria