Guar is excellent soil building crop with respect to availability of nitrogen. Root nodules contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria and crop residues, when ploughed under, improves yields of succeeding crops. The traditional uses of Guar are human consumption, cattle feed, medical purpose, crop, and soil improvement.

With the development of technology, it is used for extraction gum powder, which has many applications including food preparation and beverages, textile, paper, petroleum, mining, explosives, and cosmetics.