They are encouraged to grow cassava on one-third of their land and a mixture of legumes, soybeans and other food-crops on the remaining two thirds.
The substrate combining mixture of non-legume and legume vegetable waste at 2 1 ratio provided the major nutrients in more balanced proportion compared to others.
The result showed that among different vegetable wastes, substrate combining mixture of non-legume and legume wastes at 2 1 emerged best considering the nutrient contents, C/N ratio, earthworm biomass and vermicompost recovery.
Vermicompost produced from judicious mixture of non-legume and legume family waste provided maximum P and K and reasonable concentration of nitrogen and supplied the elements throughout the growth phases of the plant that might have fulfilled the demand of the crop and encouraged better root growth and yield compared to other vermicompost.
The study demonstrated that vermicompost produced from the substrate, combining mixture of non-legume and legume vegetable waste at 2 1 will provide the major nutrients in more balanced proportion compared to sole individual family waste vermicompost (vermicompost obtained from the waste of one single plant family).
Thus, the next most effective and at the same time cheapest method of preventing pasture bloat is to seed pastures using mixtures of legumes and tannin-containing plants.
With the exception of a composite porridge made from a mixture of cereal, legume and animal source flour, use of composite flour was rare in this area.
'She [Freweini] gives me good advice on foods I should give him – a mixture of cereals, legumes and she tells me how to prepare it," Desale said.
Wang, Y., Marschner, P. & Zhang, F. Phosphorus pools and other soil properties in the rhizosphere of wheat and legumes growing in three soils in monoculture or as a mixture of wheat and legume.
Hay is a dried mixture of grasses and legumes.
