Advantages of soybean plantation

·         Has short duration season and farmer could utilize rice, cotton, and rainfed fallow areas.

·         Well fit in the existing cropping system without clashing with major crops.

·     Economics often dictates crop sequence, but where choices are available, soybeans should follow crops other than soybean like cereals that make better use of the nitrogen provided by legume crops.

·      Soybean also provides good quality protein which is high in one of the limiting amino acids lysine, and is useful as a supplement to other cereals.

·         Soybean oil consists of 85 percent unsaturated fatty acid from which two essential fatty acids, linoleic and linolenic acids, not synthesized by the human are provided, therefore, soya oil is good for better health and heart patients.