1. Green Manuring improves soil structure, Increases water holding capacity and decreases soil loss by erosion

 2. Growing of green manure crops in the off season reduces weed proliferation and weed growth.

3. Green Manuring helps in reclamation of alkaline soils. Root knot nematodes can be controlled by green manuring.

 4. It adds organic matter to the soil and simulates activity of soil micro-organisms.

5. The Green Manuring takes nutrients from lower layers of the soil and adds to the upper layer in which it is incorporated.

 6. It is a leguminous crop, it fixes ‘N’ from the atmosphere and adds to the soil for being used by succeeding crop. Generally, about 2/3 of the N is derived from the atmosphere and the rest from the soil.

7. It increases the availability of certain plant nutrients like P2O5, Ca, Mg and Fe.