| Abstract from DBPedia | In agriculture, a green manure is a crop specifically produced to be incorporated into the soil while still green. Typically, the green manure's biomass is incorporated with a plow or disk, as is often done with (brown) manure. The primary goal is to add organic matter to the soil for its benefits. Green manuring is often used with legume crops to add nitrogen to the soil for following crops, especially in organic farming, but is also used in conventional farming.緑肥（りょくひ）とは、新鮮な緑色植物をそのまま田畑に漉き込んで肥料とすること。これに用いられる植物は「緑肥作物」という。緑肥としての効果と風雨による表土流出の防止も兼ねて使われる植物を英語ではカバークロップ（cover crop）と呼ぶ。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Green_manure) |
