Growing Food: A Guide to Food Production

The lentil plant is an annual, with slender stems and many branches, 15–60 cm tall, with small pale mauve, blue, pink or white f ...

Growth period: 80–100 days for early varieties, 125–180 days for later maturing varieties. Temperature: for germination the opti ...

LIMITATIONS • • • Lima Bean Phaseolus lunatus (Syn. P. limensis, P. inamoenus) Porco) are Portuguese names for the common jackbe ...

Soil: adapts to a wide range, including acidic soil, provided they are well drained and aerated, and not saline. Optimum pH is 6 ...

Virus Diseases—there are several, such as Bean Golden Yellow Mosaic, which prevents the plant from producing seed. YIELD In un ...

Mung Bean Phaseolus aureus (Syn. Vigna radiata) Green Gram, Golden Gram, Jerusalem Pea, Oorud Bean; Haricot Doré, Haricot Mungo* ...

Rotation: often grown after rice or another cereal. Rootknot nematodes can cause serious problems if mung beans are grown too of ...

LIMITATIONS • • • • • • Pigeon Pea Cajanus cajan (Syn. C. indicus, C.bicolor, C.flavus, Cytisus cajan)) Red Gram, Yellow Dahl, A ...

There is also a wide range of intermediate types, with great variation in height, growth period and photoperiodic response. Many ...

Diseases: Fusarium Wilt is usually the most serious; it is a soil-borne fungus, controlled with a 3–5 year crop rotation and/or ...

Soybean Glycine max (Syn. G. soja, G. hispida, Soja max) Soya, Soy, Soy Bean, Soya Bean, Soyabean; Soybeans are highly efficient ...

Seed rate: 40–90 kg/ha. Seed size varies from 5000 to 40,000 per kilogram, the average for modern varieties being about 10,000 2 ...

flowering stage to just before pod maturity. On the other hand, soybeans need less water than maize. Altitude: soya cultivation ...

UTILISATION Soybeans are widely used in a vast range of industries—adhesives, nutrients, fertiliser, textiles and fibres—and in ...

Vetch (Grass Pea or Chickling) Lathyrus sativus Chickling Pea, Chickling Vetch, Blue Vetchling, Lathyrus (Pea), Manila Bean, Ind ...

lathyrism sometimes occurs due to admixture with seed of the common vetch (Vicia sativa). The toxin is greatly reduced if the se ...

UTILISATION • and eaten as a pulse, or split and used as dhal, or ground into flour to make chapattis, paste balls and curries. ...

The seed or grain of oilseed crops contains about 20–50% oil, up to about 70%, which is extracted either by physical pressure or ...

Oilcake Also known as presscake, pomace or oilmeal, oilcake is the material that remains after the oil has been extracted from t ...

is produced in Latin America and more than half in Brazil and India. Global production in 2004 was 1.3 million MT, according to ...