Meaning of siderate | Babel Free

Definitions

A plant that is grown alongside a crop in order to improve its growth; A companion crop.

Examples

“The annual and perennial lupine and sweet clover may be regarded as the best siderates.”

“New types of mineral fertilizers, higher quality organic matter, and other biological means of compensating for the lost nutrients (including siderates) can reduce the required amounts of mineral fertilizers.”

“In such situation, environment-forming possibilities of crop rotations (including perennial legume herbs, siderates, after-harvest cultures, etc.) and different soil cultivation techniques (which may either attenuate or on the contrary to significantly increase the variegation of fields) play a peculiar role in the SAR "formation".”

CEFR level