List of Nitrogen Fixers

In our Agriculture for Everybody blog series,  we will see the various crops that fix Nitrogen in the soil.  This will enable us to plan well and get the maximum benefit.


Identifying Excessive or Deficient Nitrogen

1. Too Little Nitrogen results in plant burning, which causes them to shrivel and die
2. Too Much Nitrogen results in Leaf edges becoming yellow or brown and wilt

List of Nitrogen Fixers

1. Acacia Arabica (????????)
2. Albizia lebbeck (???? ????)
3. Alfalfa (?????? ?????)
4. Alsike clover / true clover
5. Bambara groundnut
6. Beech Tree(???????)
7. Berseem clover
8. Birdsfoot trefoil
9. Blue-green alga
10. Bread Beans
11. Broad bean (??????????)
12. Chicken Pea (??????????)
13. Clitoria ternatia (????? ??????? ????)
14. Clover (??????????)
15. Common bean
16. Cowpea
17. Crimson clover
18. False Rudraksh
19. Fenugreek (????????)
20. Field peas
21. French Beans
22. Gliricidia sepium (???? ??????)
23. Green Gram
24. Groundnut (????)
25. Hairy vetch
26. Hyacinth Beans (??????????/ ??????)
27. Leucaena leucocephala (???????? /???????? )
28. Indian Coral Tree (?????? ????????)
29. Manila Tamarind (????????????)
30. Mung bean
31. Pecan
32. Pigeon Pea or Red Gram
33. Prosopis cineraria (????? ????)
34. Red Beans (Adzuki bean)
35. Red Bead Tree (??? ?????????)
36. Red clover
37. Senna
38. Sesbania Grandiflora (?????? ????)
39. Sesbania sp
40. Soybeans
41. Sunhemp
42. Sweet clover
43. Sweet Peas
44. Velvet bean (??????????)
45. White sweetclover (?????? ??????? ??????????)