BEIJING - A cover-all monitoring and testing network has been established to ensure all the cowpeas shipped to the inland from south China's island province of Hainan are safe, a senior agricultural ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Cowpeas, also known as lobia can help you to stay fit and fine. So, see to it that you add it to your daily diet. Cowpeas are a prevalent type of bean known as black-eyed peas because of their ...

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 ...

Nokuthula Vilakati receives funding from the NRF which funded my PhD studies. As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, its complex connections with food security are developing too. Lockdowns have disrupted ...