"Agronomic and Ecosystem Services Potentialities of Green Manure Utilization"

Abstract

Anthropic actions are always very harmful to environment as long as the industrial peoples and farmers are interested to use chemical products and natural resources excessively to meet their needs. However, recently, an ecological approach based on the use of green manure can be adopted as sustainable development approach of agriculture in the world. This study focused to analyze agronomic and ecosystem services potentialities made by green manure use of to explore its various functions. Different authors indicated that green manure plants have various potentialities namely economic services, ecological services, positive effects on plant health and quality and quantity of yield, carbon sequestration, improvement of soil health and biodiversity, landscape services, and mitigation of soil water losses, air pollution and environment degradation. Because of a few economic profits comparatively to those from the use of excessive agrochemical products, the ecological compensation mechanism is the main way to promote farmers to plant green manure for sustainability of agriculture.