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D-inoculant Dictionary

Inoculant

A bacterial treatment that helps legumes fix nitrogen from the air

All termsIntroduced in M3Open the Toolkit
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Plain meaning
A bacterial treatment that helps legumes fix nitrogen from the air
How to use it
Buy fresh inoculant, keep it cool and apply it on the day of planting soya.
South African benchmark
South African soya growers inoculate seed as standard practice (Article 8).
Country notes
Applies the same way in all five markets.
Go and read
M3-U4, M3-U5, M3-U6
Calculate it
T-M3-02 Input Plan per Hectare
Library sources
LIB-A009, LIB-P-Soybean, LIB-P-Sunflower
See also
Oilseed, Crop rotation
Oilseeds: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedOilseeds: how the business runsSold bytonnes (t) per hectare1Plant2Grow3Harvest4Deliver to crusher5Oil and oilcakeZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Oilseeds Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M3 Oilseeds.