In India, leguminous crops are grown alternately with wheat, barley, and mustard.
"It is resistant to high temperature and is suitable for marginal soils where other leguminous crops cannot be grown".
Alfalfa, like other leguminous crops, is a known source of phytoestrogens, including spinosterol.
Flower feeding leads to lower yield and this can be a problem in some leguminous crops.
Grass and leguminous crops accounted for 61% of total organic farming in 2005, followed by perennial grasses at 26%.
This increases host nitrogen nutrition and is important to the cultivation of soybeans, chickpeas and many other leguminous crops.
Soybeans, a leguminous crop, are also included in China's grain statistics.
The larval main food plants are wild cereals, leguminous and cereal crops.
Products of plant origin, for example, cereals, leguminous crops, vegetables, fruit and wood, are also included in this.
Like many leguminous crops, pulses play a key role in crop rotation due to their ability to fix nitrogen.