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Black Gram

Crop application data

Black Gram Vigna mungo

A major pulse across India and South Asia, central to food supply and to the soil-fertility phase of cereal rotations.

Black Gram — Vigna mungo

55 kg N/ha

the nitrogen black gram can fix into a depleted rotation — held back where native rhizobia are too sparse to nodulate it well.

The challenge

Usually grown in low-input, intercropped systems on depleted soils, where sparse native rhizobia limit nodulation and the nitrogen it returns to the rotation.

01

A staple that also feeds the soil

A major pulse across South Asia, black gram is both food on the plate and the fertility-building phase of the cereal rotations it sits within.

02

Grown on tired ground

It is usually raised low-input and intercropped on depleted soils, where sparse native rhizobia limit how well it can nodulate in the first place.

03

Thin nodulation, thin return

Weak fixation caps both the crop itself and the nitrogen it hands to the following cereal — so a struggling rotation loses on both counts.

The Black Gram program

A crop-matched program led by the Orvan™ coupling, backed by a region-specific rhizobium (Nodu™) and phosphate-solubilizing, stress-tolerance PGPR (Vigor™). Each is field-proven and available on its own.

Orvan™ Blackgram

Rhizosphere coordination consortium

Orvan™ Blackgram

Nitrogen-fixation potentiation — applied alongside your rhizobial inoculant. Orvan™ carries no rhizobia of its own; it amplifies the ones already adapted to your soil.

Field-proven (vs untreated control)
+11.9% yield · up to 4.3× more nodules (38–41/plant) · ≤55 kg N/ha fixed
Strains
B. velezensis · Brevibacillus laterosporus · P. mucilaginosus
Trial network
30 sites / 4 provinces
Available as
Base · Coat · Root
Nodu™ BG

Rhizobial inoculant

Nodu™ BG

The region-matched, nitrogen-fixing rhizobia your crop needs — so it fixes more of its own nitrogen and you buy less.

Field-proven (standalone, vs control)
+8.3% yield · 16 sites
Rhizobium
Bradyrhizobium (Vigna group)
Nitrogen
Up to 55 kg N/ha, strengthens the rotation’s pulse phase
Available as
Peat · Liquid · Coat · Granule · FD · Duo
Vigor™

PGPR — phosphorus & stress

Vigor™

Frees bound soil phosphorus, builds stronger roots, and buffers drought and salinity stress — the second leg of the consortium.

Field-proven (standalone, vs control)
+8.2% yield · 16 sites
Strains
B. subtilis · P. fluorescens · B. megaterium · A. brasilense (Ab-V5 / Ab-V6-type)
Measured
up to 25% less applied P · +12% root biomass
Available as
Granule · Liquid · WDG · Seed

Packaging and label information may vary by product version and market.

Orvan™ field trials · Black Gram · vs. untreated control

Field-proven · +11.9% average yield

Across 30 sites in 4 provinces (Yunnan, Guangxi, Hainan; 2022–2024): +11.9% average yield, up to 4.3× more nodules, 38–41 nodules per plant, and up to 55 kg N/ha fixed, strengthening the pulse phase of cereal rotations.

Run an on-farm trial on Black Gram.