What is a cover crop?

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Covering crop, also called "Green Fertilizer", concerns any annual, permanent or two -year plant, which is grown as a monoculture or polyculture. This is often done to combat various sustainable agricultural conditions. When crops are grown in this way, fertility, water, weeds, pests and diseases are effectively controlled.

Covering crops can increase the soil by increasing certain elements in the soil. By growing and adding the cover crop to the soil, scientists and farmers have found that the quality of the soil is considerably increased. If these crops are to grow for a long time, soil fertility will increase.

Not only do these crops increase soil quality, but also play a major role in the help of the environment. When a cover crop is set, the amount of water that comes from a large field is reduced. This reduction prevents infiltrating rivers and other water bodies, which could cause environmental damage.

In addition, the cover crop also prevents weeds and germination. AppearanceEM to the fact that green manure crops are often stronger than any weeds, these crops tend to kill weeds before they have a chance to grow fully. When cover crops compete with weeds, the result is often the death of all weeds that tried to take over the field. Farmers are so strongly relying on these crops to control weed problems.

Likewise, the cover crop also has the ability to get rid of the field of any disease. These crops often suppress the disease before they had a chance to grow. Plants in the mustard family are particularly effective when it comes to deprivation of the field of all nearby diseases. Another big advantage of cover crop is the control of pests.

By deceiving different pests and predators to infiltrate the cover crop, rather than food crop, pests are not interested in real crop. When pests begin to cut between the cover crops can be removed by the farmers these pests using insecticsImplification. Some farmers can also use cover crops to stimulate wildlife.

Because cover crops are not considered to be of high value, birds and other species that build nests inside the cover crops are not considered to be a threat or danger to farmers. Many farmers thus allow wild -living animals to inhabit crops. In this way, the cover crop helps to increase the number of wild animals that visit farms by providing shelter, nesting areas and safe refuge from other predators.