**4.5 Tolerance to low soil fertility especially nitrogen and phosphorus requirements**

Soils are continuously depleted and there is higher need for crops with high efficiency in the use of nitrogen and phosphorus. Legume crops with high capacity of nitrogen fixation bred and released for commercialization should be compatible with free living N fixing bacteria, Rhizobia. This helps restore nitrogen in the soils which could benefit staple cereal crops in subsequent crop rotations.
