🌾 Crop
ANX-CROP-0000104
Sunn hemp
Crotalaria juncea
A fast-growing tropical legume grown for fiber, green manure, and as a nitrogen-fixing cover crop.
- Species
- Crotalaria juncea
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Climate requirements
- Warm tropical and subtropical climate.
- Temperature range
- 20-30°C (absolute 4-40°C)
- Rainfall range
- 500-1500mm (absolute 200-4300mm)
- Altitude range
- 1500m
- Soil types
- Wide soil tolerance including poor, sandy soils.
- Soil pH
- 6-7 (absolute 5-8.4)
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