Geography
Answer
The advantages of cultivation of pulses are as follows:
- Pulses are a very important source of vegetable protein.
- Being leguminous crops, pulses fix atmospheric nitrogen in the soil and increase the natural fertility of soil.
- Pulses are usually rotated with other crops to maintain or restore soil fertility.
- Pulses serve as an excellent forage and grain concentrates in the feed of cattle.
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