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Why do farmers use leguminous crops to provide nitrogen to soil ? Explain .

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The farmers use leguminous crops to provide nitrogen to soil because leguminous crops have nitrogen fixation bacteria in their root nodules that is fixed atmospheric nitrogen into the soil like as Rhizobium bacteria who found in leguminous( pea, pulse, soybean ) the root nodules and it fixed atmospheric nitrogen into the soil.

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