{"id":18267,"date":"2016-02-25T15:19:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T20:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18267"},"modified":"2016-02-25T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T20:19:13","slug":"green-leaf-manure-a-useful-organic-manure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18267","title":{"rendered":"Green Leaf Manure&#8211;A Useful Organic Manure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"post-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/soil-green-leaf.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/soil-green-leaf-300x130.jpg 300x, http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/soil-green-leaf.jpg 690x\" alt=\"a soil with green leaf\" width=\"690\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2016\/02\/25\/green-leaf-manure-a-useful-organic-manure\/\" target=\"_blank\">GREEN LEAF MANURE \u2013 A USEFUL ORGANIC MANURE<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-meta\">Green leaf manures (GLMs) are organic manures made from leaves collected from all available sources and used to supply essential plant nutrients to the soil and increase soil fertility in a healthy manner. Using GLMs to grow crops is not a recent concept at all and has been used in many South Asian countries for centuries. Green leaf manuring can be defined as the pruning and collecting of green leaves and twigs from various trees, herbs and shrubs and then applying them elsewhere as fertilizers. Forest tree leaves are major sources of these manures while herbs and shrubs growing in field bunds, wastelands etc. are some other mentionable sources. Using green leaf manures is very useful practice especially in hilly areas.<\/div>\n<p><strong>WHY GREEN LEAF MANURES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Using chemical fertilizers as a nutrient source for plant growth is not at all a good way to treat the soil. Chemical fertilizers are being used worldwide, especially in third world countries, to negotiate the extra food requirement by the huge world population.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26329\" src=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/crop-spraying-chemicals-1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/crop-spraying-chemicals-1-300x200.jpg 300x, http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/crop-spraying-chemicals-1.jpg 690x\" alt=\"Pesticide spraying\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This indiscriminate use of various chemical fertilizers is causing a number of environmental and health hazards along with permanent damage to the most precious natural resource \u2018soil\u2019. If this terrible chemical using goes unrestrained, the soil will no longer be available for crop production after a certain period.<\/p>\n<p>So, it is time to shift the agricultural system from chemicals to organic manures to maintain a healthy soil for the upcoming generations.<\/p>\n<p>As organic manure, green leaf manure is capable of supplying the required plant nutrients with maintaining very good soil health. For instance, in an experiment rice yield was increased significantly due to the application of GLMs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREEN LEAF MANURE \u2013 A USEFUL ORGANIC MANURE Green leaf manures (GLMs) are organic manures made from leaves collected from all available sources and used to supply essential plant nutrients to the soil and increase soil fertility in a healthy manner. Using GLMs to grow crops is not a recent concept at all and has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12638,12639,8748,12640],"class_list":["post-18267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-green-manure","tag-organic-manure","tag-permaculture-news","tag-shamim-reza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18268,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18267\/revisions\/18268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}