SUGAR bean farmers can save more than US$100 per hectare by using rhizobium bio-fertiliser instead of chemical fertilisers, the Government has advised, as planting of the legume reaches fever pitch.
Link, G. K. K., Wilcox, H. W., and Link, A. DeS., Bot. Gaz., 98, 816–867 (1937).
Farmers growing leguminous crops, the hosts for the nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria, can and should improve nitrogen by inoculating their legume crops with more of the bacteria. Grasslands ...