AMARILLO -- Ground left fallow in the High Plains to store soil moisture between crops may be better off with a legume crop such as cowpeas, according to a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station ...

Cowpeas, a staple in many African diets, are slowly gaining attention for their nutritional and environmental benefits ...

Until two years ago, when I ate my first meal at Brennan's of Houston, I was a cowpea virgin. A Northerner, I came to cowpeas a blank slate. The pecan-crusted fish I ordered sat atop a heap of ...

A system of agriculture without the use of a leguminous crop tends to lessen the productivity of the soil and makes necessary large outlays for nitrogenous fertilisers. With a leguminous crop grown at ...

Though sometimes invisible to the eye, soil is alive. Soil is an ecosystem where microbes, fungi, hibernating insects and plant roots all compete for nutrients, and where the tiny pockets of air and ...

Cowpeas, known as black-eyed peas in the U.S., are an important and versatile food legume grown in more than 80 countries. Scientists are working to map the genes controlling drought and heat ...

Cowpea (vigna unguiculata) farming is popular in Uganda’s arid and semi-arid areas due to its high nutrition value, short harvest period, and hardiness. The cowpea is also known as the black-eyed pea.

HAIKOU: More Chinese provinces have banned the sale of cowpeas grown in south China's Hainan province as concern about "toxic cowpeas" spreads. China's Ministry of Agriculture issued an urgent ...

As the planet warms, these five drought-tolerant and highly nutritious crops offer hope for greater resiliency Over the course of human history, scientists believe that humans have cultivated more ...

Ground left fallow in the High Plains to store soil moisture between crops may be better off with a legume crop such as cowpeas, according to a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher. Dr.