Plants that contribute to ...

Plants that contribute to nitrogen fixation include the legume family . They contain symbiotic bacteria called Rhizobia within nodules in their root systems, producing nitrogen compounds that help the plant to grow and compete with other plants. When the plant dies, the fixed nitrogen is released, making it available to other plants and this helps to fertilize the soil. Peas are well known to help fix nitrogen into the soil. Also for small scale farmers peas make a good rotation crop for that reason. Farmers can dig the pea plants back into the soil which helps with the overall log-term soil nutrition. The nitrogen from the plants will not mineralise in a year, the peas do provide more nitrogen than the other crop use. so for the small scale farmers also its a goog idea to grow pea or other legume in a inter cropping pattern or in a rotational cropping system.Which crop you are producing Aamir?