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    Constraints of Green Manuring

    • In intensively cropped areas, farmers do not wish to set apart 6 - 8 weeks exclusively for growing a green manure crop with no direct cash benefit.
    • When rice is grown after wheat, farmers find it difficult to do the farm operations in the intense heat of May and June.
    • The most costly item in green manuring is the seed. Inadequate availability of quality seeds of desired species at reduced cost is one of the major problems in the adoption of green manuring practice.
    • Benefits of green manuring are not perceptible to the farmers because it is not directly visible as in the case of fertilizer N.
    • Intercropped green manures compete for growth resources of main crop.