TNPSC Thervupettagam

International Symposium on Buckwheat – Meghalaya

September 10 , 2019 1820 days 1044 0
  • In Meghalaya, a four-day international symposium on buckwheat crop.
  • The theme of the symposium was "diversifying food systems for health and nutritional security".

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  • Buckwheat is a low input crop that has relatively high yields even in marginal soil.
  • It adds nutrients to the soil and hence it makes a good cover crop or rotational crop.
  • It extracts soil phosphorus from soil better than most grain-type cover crops.

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